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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widespread in hard-hit Detroit is a bleak pessimism that contrasts sharply with the city's traditional Midwestern spirit. Detroiters do not count their city as especially beautiful or rich in culture, but they treasure its name for thrust, energy, confidence. Their favorite adjective: "dynamic." For generations young men leaving farms and small towns in the Midwest and the South have headed hopefully for bustling Detroit. One of the city's most cherished residents is a relentlessly optimistic versifier, Edgar Guest...
Church in Akron. Soon Fry's congregation was hard hit by the Depression; it was then that he became a Democrat, an allegiance that causes considerable head-shaking on the part of his 90-year-old mother, widowed for 25 years. "Franklin is such a brilliant fellow," she says, "I don't see how he can be so stupid on political matters." Comments Fry: "Mother would vote for the Devil on the Republican ticket-and frequently...
Back in the U.S., he had a fling at Hollywood again (26 frustrating weeks under a writer's contract), but began to hit his stride on Hallmark with his adaptations of Cradle Song and The Lark. But Little Moon, exuberantly greeted by most U.S. TV critics last week, seemed to mark a big upturn in Costigan's career. In it he grappled compassionately with "those forces in life that make it difficult or impossible," qualified as the kind of writer once described by Pascal in a line that Costigan likes to quote: ''I most admire those...
AMERICAN MOTORS, already well along comeback trail, will pick up more speed with Government contract for its light (1,500 Ibs.), jeeplike Mighty Mite, which can hit 60 m.p.h. with aluminum, V4, air-cooled engine. First order: $5.6 million for tooling and 250 vehicles for Marine Corps, but Detroit says much bigger orders are coming...
...Freuchen. who managed to fashion successful careers as newspaperman, lecturer, travel writer and novelist (Eskimo ). During World War II, the vigorous Dane found time to fight in his country's anti-Nazi underground. Last summer he became a familiar figure across the U.S. as the fifth contestant to hit the jackpot on television's The $64,000 Question.* Later, at the start of one more Arctic expedition, peg-legged Peter Freuchen died of a heart attack...