Word: miche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, Mich...
...After two months of almost unbroken heat, the weather got hotter & hotter. A 40 & 8 band from Flint, Mich, marched in an American Legion parade in Detroit in diapers and baby hats. In big-city slums, thousands slept on rooftops and fire escapes. Then over the weekend, a cold air mass moved in at last and made life bearable...
Field Work. In Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Vivien Nelson, filling out her fourth marriage-license application, listed her occupation as "bridal consultant...
...horse and heroic rider who angered Zeus by their presumption at trying to mount the heavens. The infuriated god sent a hornet to sting Pegasus' flank, and Bellerophon, thrown from the horse's back, plummeted to earth. Milles made a sketch model that stood in his Cranbrook, Mich. studio "for years," until Des Moines Publisher Gardner Cowles came along and commissioned him to complete it for the Art Center...
...Criminal Mind. In Pontiac, Mich., Mrs. Opal E. Caughell told police, that when the burglar who entered her house was assured that she had no money, he settled for a ham sandwich. In Kansas City, Mo., police were looking for a youth who kidnaped 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner, took her money and car, then kissed her gently on the cheek with the observation that she reminded him of his mother. In Redding, Calif., Dick Farnsworth found a note on the door of his rifled store: "Get a new lock; this one is too easy...