Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ward McAllister. Chicago's Mrs. Potter Palmer, Denver's "Unsinkable" Mrs. Margaret Tobin Brown,* San Francisco's Ned Greenway. But changes in American life and the hard realities of newspaper circulation-building have transformed the face of U.S. society news. Running a society page, explains Detroit News Women's Department Director Gordon Dixon, is "something like running a restaurant. If you have only fancy food and high prices, your clientele is limited." Last week, all over the U.S., society editors, reporters and columnists were busy showing how varied the new society menu could...
...others: New Orleans' Nathan Franko (off and on from 1899 to 1913), Detroit's Max Bendix (1909-1910). Schippers is the youngest conductor at the Met since Walter Damrosch, who was signed...
...Crises. "When Joe came back to Detroit last spring," says patient Julia Dodge, "I thought we might have some social life again, but I just couldn't plan a thing. Almost every night he brings papers home with him . . . We used to play bridge, but haven't had a game for four or five years." Dodge still has three hobbies that take his mind off money matters: photography, supervising his gardener on Sunday mornings, and playing with his three grandchildren, the offspring of his artist...
...through the Iron Curtain last week, free men. Private William Marchuk, 38, of Norristown, Pa., who disappeared from his Army unit in Berlin in 1949, asked for a cigarette and grunted, as he dragged on it: "First American cigarette in six years." His companion, John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, had been arrested by the Russians in Dresden in 1945. Said he: "I have much to tell...
...Some dealers charged their troubles to bootlegging or the race for first place between Ford and Chevrolet rather than to their own lack of sales enterprise. Denver Chevrolet Dealer Bud Viner blamed his average $275 discount on bootleggers who take advantage of Denver's freight rate ($150 from Detroit) to bring in cars by tow. Said he: "There are more new cars on used-car lots in Denver than in new-car dealer showrooms." But the big reason for price cuts was that buyers became accustomed to them in the last year...