Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit, school officials banned night games for high-school basketball teams after a gang of rowdy teen-agers cut and stabbed the star of one winning team, 18-year-old Ross A. De Boskey...
...that he feels romance burning in his veins. He may yearn to run off to the Galapagos Islands and rest beneath the palms with the local Liat (native girl in South Pacific), but usually he just starts wearing California sport shirts and loafers. John R. Winter Jr., 40, of Detroit, was a different sort. He went to the Arthur Murray Studio on Livernois Avenue...
...world opened to him the second his shoes slid on the polished floor. That was last October. John was not the ballroom type. He was a plump, grey-haired grass widower, and the president of two unromantic family businesses: Winter Bros. Stamping Co. (auto parts) of Detroit and Winter Pressed Steel Co. (tractor parts) of Napoleon, Ohio. But John was dogged. He started right out dancing-and he danced ten hours...
...turns around the floor with Miss Keene and my eyes nearly popped out of my head. He was wonderful. He kept on giving me little hints-told me to raise my hand a bit or drop it-things like that." Soon, John gave Chafic a job at the Detroit plant as his secretary at $2.31 an hour. "He told me he could make me a gold medalist in 500 hours." After this, things grew slightly confused. Winter says that Sabino borrowed his charge plate at a department store to buy a pair of shoes, but bought $800 worth of clothes...
...last stop before the coaches' convention, Jordan, and Robert B. Hardy '54, quarterback of the 1953 team, addressed a luncheon in Detroit...