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Eerie Light. It was 8:30 o'clock when the big one hit suburban Flint. Cars and trucks bounced like baseballs through the ruined fields. Homes were flattened; factories, schools and shops were ripped apart board by board, block by block. After the wind, gas poured from broken mains, burned low along the ground with a sputtering blue flame. During the night, rescue workers burrowed for bodies in the eerie light. Flint's toll: 113 dead, 547 injured, $12 million in property damage...
...photography, Flint (Mich.) Journal Photographer William M. Gallagher, who got a memorable photograph out of a routine assignment with his campaign picture of Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson which showed a hole in his shoe...
...doctor until its ailment-a corpuscular clotting of automobile traffic in its downtown arteries-grew almost unbearable. By 1947, its regular morning and evening attacks were getting progressively worse, and it had exhausted all the known home remedies. In despair it hired a greying, bucktoothed police captain from Flint, Mich, named Henry W. ("Hank") Barnes and asked him to administer some pain killer...
...wise choice. Traffic Doctor Barnes had come by his odd craft almost by accident. He had started out in life as an electrician after leaving his home-town Newark, N.Y., migrated to Flint to work in automobile plants. He had eased into a city job as a signal engineer and had finally got into traffic work-an achievement which was crowned when he became a member of the Institute of Traffic Engineers. In a sense, Barnes was still an intern when he came to Denver. But he saw almost instantly that he had to do more than prescribe massive medication...
Political Career: One day in 1940, Summerfield went to a Republican rally to hear Candidate Wendell Willkie. Convinced that the hostility of the audience was "a disgrace to the town," he got together with nine other Flint businessmen to organize a Republican campaign committee which gave Willkie a surprisingly large vote in Genesee County that November and helped him carry Michigan. From then on, Summerfield was wed to politics. Appointed finance director of Michigan's Republican state central committee in 1943, he proved so successful in getting contributions that other Republican leaders came to Michigan to find...