Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collector bought a painting for $2,700. He kept it for some 15 years and then sold it to Dr. Irving F. Burton, a Detroit pediatrician, for approximately $37,000. Five years later Dr. Burton sent it to Sotheby Parke Bernet, where it was auctioned with the rest of his collection last month. It was knocked down for $250,000. Thus far the script looks banal-"Impressionism for Fun and Profit." But the painting was not by an Impressionist, nor even by a European. It was Steelworkers -Noontime, by Thomas Anshutz, and its price established an auction record...
AVIS may have to work harder to get ahead, but American Motors practically has to work miracles. As No. 4 in an industry almost totally controlled by Detroit's Big Three, AMC must fight just to stay alive, and in recent years many auto men doubted that the company could make it. Lately, though, Motown's mouse has begun to varoom. Sales of AMC's 1972 autos hit an eight-year high of 303,000 units, up 20% from the previous year; October sales of the '73s were 10% ahead of the same period last year...
THAT TRADITION BEGAN personally for Larry when he formed the "old Gold Brothers band" in Detroit, consisting of all the original members of the James Montgomery band--Larry James, Billy Mather, pass genius and David Case on organ. Gradually the band came east. Larry following James and Billy to Boston, where Larry Carsman's Gold Brothers became known as the James Montgomery Blues Band. Some of the songs that band stood by date from G.B. days and have come through the Montgomery Band with Larry to be performed now in the Larry Carsman Band--fans of James will recall...
...team will not have any time for special preparation because a tournament in Detroit directly procedes the meeting with the Czechs. "We'll be in shape and ready to take them on." McManama said. "We'll treat it like any other game on the preseason schedule...
...Toonerville Trolley was enshrined on the funny pages. Then ridership began to fall off as automobiles flooded the streets, and local governments and independent transit authorities had to rush in and buy out the lines to keep them running. One by one, private companies fell into public hands: Detroit (1922), New York City (1932, 1940), Cleveland (1942), Chicago and Boston (1947). After Atlanta went public last March, D.C. Transit was the outstanding survivor of this particular breed of dinosaur. With its passing, the largest privately owned city system is Rapid Transit Lines, Inc., whose 400 buses serve central Houston...