Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair Lady in DETROIT and Two for the Seesaw and The Music Man in CHICAGO are adequate replicas of the Broadway originals...
...Smitty runs his own $2,500,000-a-year engineering firm in Detroit, but he is seldom there. He fishes in Bimini, skis in Norway, once slept with Hillsdale in a Santa Anita stable. His need for guts came early. He was a promising athlete in his youth-a rugged bull of a kid who was forever picking fights with his grade-school classmates, later channeled his energies into football in Massillon, Ohio. His athletic promise faded tragically when, at 15, he came in contact with a high-tension wire. The accident mangled his left hand, severely creased his skull...
Smitty's generosity is as big as his 6-ft.-5-in., 240-Lb. frame. By promoting boxing bouts in Detroit (1958 loss: $60,000), he finds work for a ragtag stable of fighters, gives them handouts and a chance to show what they can do. His payroll bulges with ex-pugs. One of his engineers is a former light heavyweight. A once promising middleweight serves as an office manager. A prelim fighter is carried as a janitor...
...When the lackluster Detroit Red Wings shambled through a 5-0 defeat at the hands of the New York Rangers and fell to within a point of the National Hockey League cellar, Coach Sid Abel took quick action, socked 14 of his 18 players with $100 fines for what he called the worst Detroit performance in 20 years. ¶ Terry Brennan, rudely fired last December as head football coach at Notre Dame despite a winning career record (32-18), turned his back on a clutch of other college offers, announced at a testimonial dinner in Chicago that he was joining...
Divorce Revealed. Hank Greenberg, 48, longtime slugging first baseman for the Detroit Tigers, member of the Hall of Fame; by Caral Greenberg, 43, daughter of Merchant Prince Bernard Gimbel (Gimbels. Saks); after 13 years of marriage, three children; in Cullman...