Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a morning session at Harper Hospital, he went to the Statler. Hotel's Michigan Room for a news conference with nine or ten Detroit reporters. At the doorway Wilson told a story about the western sheriff whose friends smeared Limburger cheese in his beard while he slept. Wakening, he sniffed (Wilson sniffed to demonstrate) and rushed outdoors, but could not get away from the smell. Baffled, he went back in and announced: "Boy, the whole world stinks." That's like the Democratic Party, said Wilson, still accusing the Republicans of the kind of mess in Washington made...
When the conference began, he talked freely and answered all questions. Many of the questions were about the possibility of more defense contracts for Detroit. Wilson predicted that Detroit would have full employment by Christmas, and said that defense was too serious a matter to be used to make work. "When a whole community gets to leaning too much on military business and gets a vested interest in war, that's not good," said Wilson. He deplored governmental policies that seemed to promise to bring a job to every man in every area; he would like to see more...
After frantic effort, G.O.P. headquarters reached Stratton, then called Detroit and-finally-arranged a settlement. Before leaving Detroit for the flight to Chicago. Charlie Wilson knew what he would have to do. Wryly he told reporters: "The rumor around Washington is that I have foot-in-mouth disease...
This week Clifford Case sat before the television cameras and quietly called the story about his sister a dirty smear. His sister, a physical-education teacher at the exclusive Kingswood School for Girls near Detroit, had flown to New York to help him draft the reply. Said Case: "The Adelaide Case mentioned by Bella Dodd was not my sister . . . The Adelaide Case Miss Dodd knew in 1943 was then a middle-aged woman . . . my sister Adelaide was only 31 at that time . . . was then teaching physical education in Boston . . . She never heard of Miss Dodd or the activities described...
...Harris, a 30-year veteran of the managerial wars, hired Charley Dressen, who wrote himself out of a job last fall by asking for a three-year contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and spent a year in exile with the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League. ¶ In Detroit, the Tigers got rid of Fred Hutchinson, promptly sent for Bucky Harris, who had managed the team from 1930 to 1933. ¶ In Baltimore, the unsinging Orioles fired Jimmy Dykes, hired Paul Richards away from the Chicago White Sox, who in turn promoted ex-Cardinal Marty Marion from coach...