Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOSTON, Dec. 5--Displaying 20 minutes of great hockey, the Boston Bruins struck for four first period goals tonight en route to a season's record 7-2 victory over Detroit at the Garden...
...Gabriel Valley Tribune (circ. 30,195) last week published a paper of 78 pages-only two pages smaller than the mighty Times -and crammed with news of the six communities it serves. Says the editor of a prospering middle-sized Illinois daily: "The Chicago Tribune and the Detroit Free Press come into our towns like a ton of bricks. But we cover the local news like a tent over a dime. For us. the biggest news in the world is that Mrs. Murphy painted her outhouse red this morning...
...correspondents, special editions for local communities, one of the city-slick Sunday magazines. Says the publisher of a small-city Midwestern chain: "You have to be the plus paper." Through such tactics, Michigan's middlesized dailies have pared more than 100,000 Sunday circulation from Hearst's Detroit Times. Laments a metropolitan newspaper executive in Atlanta: "We're being nibbled to death by small ducks...
Another worry is Detroit's auto industry. Detroit still expects to sell 6,200,000 cars this year and about the same number next year. This week it is scheduling the highest production since December 1956. Sales for the first ten days of November were 10% better than last year, but the industry will not know how the 1958 models are going over for another two or three weeks. Ford's new Edsel is a disappointment so far. But Ford's other cars are doing well, and General Motors' President Harlow Curtice says that "the initial...
Whom He? In Grosse Pointe, Mich., offering "reasonable rates," a Mr. Erickson appealed to parents through an ad in the News: "If you are not satisfied with your child's progress in school, why not have he or she tutored by an experienced teacher recommended by the Detroit Board of Education...