Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expose, a book called O Congress, Michigan Democratic Representative Don Riegle, 38, spoke disapprovingly of Congressmen ("even elderly members") on the make. "The fact that a member might be married makes no difference at all," clucked Riegle. So the Congressman was understandably distressed last week when the Detroit News unearthed some 1969 taped conversations between the married Riegle (he divorced and remarried in 1972) and someone in his office code-named Dorothy. The tapes, the authenticity of which Riegle does not dispute, describe an "exquisite session" enjoyed by the Congressman and Dorothy. In one conversation, he complains about having...
Died. Eleanor Clay Ford, 80, one of the world's richest women (estimated fortune: between $100 million and $200 million); widow of Edsel Ford and mother of Henry Ford II; in Detroit. After her husband's death in 1943, Mrs. Ford forced her father-in-law, Ford Motor Co. Founder Henry Ford, to appoint her eldest son (then only 28) as the firm's new president. At the time, she controlled 54% of the company's voting stock and threatened to sell her shares on the open market if young Henry...
...Ethel and John Barrymore. Eva Le Gallienne's performance is a masterpiece. She is the clear, ringing voice of Kaufman's satirical commentary on all things fashionable, vain or sentimental, and the vechicle for some of his greatest lines. Sam Levene, probable most widely known as the first Nathan Detroit in the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls, plays opposite her as Oscar Wolfe, the family's long-suffering theatrical manager, forever hoping to salvage some remnant of his sanity and his job out of the daily chaos of the Cavendish household. Julie Cavendish, the majestic daughter of Fanny...
Within hours after news of the initial deaths, at least nine states closed flu-shot clinics. Meanwhile, samples of vaccine used in Pittsburgh-from a lot labeled 913339A, produced by Detroit's Parke, Davis & Co., one of four manufacturers-were rushed to the Food and Drug Administration's biologies bureau in Rockville, Md., where they were tested and given a clean bill of health. Reassured, several states ordered clinics reopened...
Betsy Bloomingdale of the department store dynasty brought her own nutmeg from Los Angeles for a rendition of an Eggs Chimay recipe published by Craig Claiborne (who also happened to be one of the six judges). The Detroit Tigers' Rusty Staub, who in his days as a Met studied cookery in several Manhattan restaurants, batted out a savory Oysters Rockefeller casserole. Celeste Holm concocted Shrimp Fiesta. Newscaster Carl Stokes reproduced his Mother's Best Home Fried Chicken. Designer Pauline Trigere, wearing an elegant Trigere gown, made Spaghetti Pauline. Actor Joel Grey and Wife Jo prepared Mexican Quesadillas. First...