Word: detroiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father was responsible for the success and integrity of pro football, and it was he who sold "postgraduate" football to the late Timothy J. Mara, George Halas, Arthur J. Rooney, George Preston Marshall, "Curly" Lambeau, the late Charles Bidwell (Cardinals), the late George A. Richards (Detroit) and the late Bert Bell...
...explain to their Detroit neighbors where all their money was coming from, retired Police Sergeant Glenn Averill and his wife Mamie worked out a simple, effective routine. Glenn would tell prying questioners that his wife had inherited a lot of money. Mamie would turn aside the inquisitive by hinting that her husband came from a wealthy family...
Some kind of explanation was needed. Mamie made $25,000 a year as head bookkeeper at the big Detroit architectural engineering firm of Giffels & Vallet (now Giffels & Rossetti). But the Averills lived far beyond the $25,000-a-year scale, with a chauffeured Cadillac, lavish wardrobes, a $300,000 estate in rural Michigan, a home in Florida and a $100,000 hunting lodge in Canada, built to resemble a British castle...
Last week Detroit police explained that the secret of the Averills' prosperity was not rich relatives but a breathtakingly simple moneymaking technique. They arrested plump Mamie Averill, 58, on a charge of embezzling $100,513 from Giffels & Vallet. Apparently she had scooped out a lot more than that: a partial audit of the records revealed shortages totaling $876,168 during 1950-55 alone...
...sets in range of U.S. stations, CBC often loses: KVOS-TV in Bellingham, Wash, consistently has a bigger slice of Vancouver viewers than does CBC's own CBUT-TV. But CBC affiliate CKLW-TV in Windsor gets 70% of its revenue from U.S. advertisers, often outdraws Detroit's WJBK-TV, WWJ-TV, WXYZ...