Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Rapids, Mich...
...hand at superintending-in Kalamazoo, Mich., New Rochelle, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo.-Hunt started setting things to rights. A friendly, glad-handing Rotarian ("It's not what you eat that makes ulcers, but what eats you"), he could be ruthless if necessary. He put school jobs under civil service, withdrew temporary certificates, set up a series of stiff examinations for prospective teachers. He doubled his budget to $146 million, started a $50 million building program, streamlined his schools from top to bottom. He raised teachers' salaries almost 50%, relieved them once & for all from political pressure. "They...
Just before the halfway mark, 28-year-old Paul Goldsmith, a gas-station owner from Royal Oak, Mich., riding in second place, pulled up at the pits to refuel. In just 22 seconds he took on four gallons of gas, two quarts of oil, a cup of black coffee, and sped on again. On his medium-sized (350 lbs.) new American model a Harley-Davidson KRTT, which had such standard equipment as four-gear transmission and some unique features of its own (a foot shift, a hand clutch), Goldsmith finally lapped most of the field...
...were done thoroughly to the first-nighters' taste, the chief interest centered on the second conductor of the evening. After Company Director Joseph Rosenstock had conducted Bluebeard, he turned over the baton to the youngest conductor on his staff: 23-year-old Thomas Schippers (pronounced shippers) of Kalamazoo, Mich...
Pouting Shot. In Adrian, Mich., Tecumseh High School Basketball Forward Jim Wilson, annoyed because he thought his team had just lost to Hillsdale High, disgustedly heaved the ball the length of the court, made a surprise basket to tie the score as the final whistle blew, went on to win the game with two baskets in the overtime period...