Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Lansing, Mich., the Michigan State band happily saluted Illinois' upset by playing On, Wisconsin! Since Michigan State had just beaten its archrival, Michigan, 14-6, it had gained a likely tie for the Big Ten title andx a chance for the Rose Bowl. At Norman, Okla., the University of Oklahoma downed Iowa State 47-0 to win the Big Seven title for the sixth year in a row, clinch an Orange Bowl bid. Oklahoma's probable New Year's Day opponent: second-ranking Maryland, which trounced Mississippi 38-0. Texas took over the top spot...
...Training. In Flint, Mich., arrested for forging $558 worth of checks, John A. McLeod, 25, tried to convince police that he was a college student majoring in criminal psychology who wanted "to get the feeling" of a criminal at work...
Gambler Frank Costello, 62, was sprung from the federal pen in Milan, Mich., after serving 14½ months of his 18-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Although Costello got time cut off his stretch for good behavior, he was no sooner out of the prison gate than he was in trouble again. Pursued by a carload of persistent newsmen, he ordered his chauffeur to step on the gas. sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows...
Died. William Levi ("Big Bill") Hutcheson, 79, longtime (1915-52) president-dictator of the powerful A.F.L. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (present membership, 822,000) ; of a heart ailment; in Indianapolis. Starting as a 20?-an-hour carpenter in Midland, Mich., Big Bill soon became a union business agent, in nine years fought his way to the presidency. A bitter, irascible foe of shop-wide unionism (i.e., the C.I.O.), he once traded punches with Fellow Czar John L. Lewis during a stormy A.F.L. convention, backed every Republican presidential candidate from Coolidge to Eisenhower. Last year, having quadrupled his union...
Until last week, executives of Reo Motors, Inc. of Lansing, Mich, thought that the U.S. Post Office Department was going to advertise their trucks as openly as Songwriters Vincent Bryan and Gus Edwards once publicized the Oldsmobile.* The design for a special commemorative stamp, planned to memorialize the 50th anniversary of the U.S. trucking industry, turned out to feature the modified but unmistakable outlines of a Reo truck, 1949 model, driven by a smiling trucker...