Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legends of Manie's considerateness sprout all over show business. One night, the story goes, Bachelor Manie wanted to get away from a girl who had a yen for him, lied that he had to fly to Detroit. Smitten, the girl offered to ride out to the airport with him. Rather than hurt her feelings, Manie wearily went to La Guardia, boarded a plane and flew to Detroit. A little more than a year ago, goes another story, Comedian Danny Thomas went to him for help with a project to benefit leukemia victims; Manie plunged into the project without...
...lithe, well-muscled young man took a pass in the corner of the court and whirled for a jump shot. A Detroit Pistons defender bumped him heavily with his hip. Tipped sideways in midair, Bob Pettit shot anyway. The ball swished cleanly through the hoop, and the St. Louis Hawks went on to a 104-100 victory. In the stands at Detroit's Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan...
...individual scoring race, at week's end had scored 1,886 points, was averaging 29 a game, needed only a trifling 17 in each of the remaining seven regular season games to smash the alltime single season scoring record of 2,001 set last year by Detroit's George Yardley...
...DETROIT, March 3--Johnny Bucyk climaxed an uphill Boston battle with a goal early in the third period and provided the Bruins with a 2-2 National Hockey League tie with the Detroit Red Wings tonight...
...Reuther, if he accepts the invitation, will probably speak on "how labor regards medicine," and what labor expects of the medical profession. Earlier this year, one of the medical advisers of the AFL-CIO lectured at the Medical School on the health program set up for UAW members in Detroit...