Word: miche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Years: Born March 17, 1899, in Pinconning, Mich., where his father ran a general store. At 13, after finishing the eighth grade, he went to work as a mail boy for the Weston-Mott Co. (auto axles) in Flint. During World War I, he worked as an ammunition inspector in the Flint Chevrolet plant; after the war he opened a real-estate brokerage with his father. In 1929, he opened a Chevrolet agency which he built into one of the largest auto agencies...
Family & Early Years: Born at Cheboygan, Mich, of Scottish-English ancestry. His father, Watts S. Humphrey, was a lawyer. After taking engineering courses along the way, George graduated from the University of Michigan law school in 1912, became the second Humphrey in his father's firm (Humphrey, Grant & Humphrey) in Saginaw. In 1913, he married Pamela Stark, his school-day sweetheart. They have two daughters and a son (another son died), and eight grandchildren...
Curtice, now 59 and sure to be Wilson's successor, has been with G.M. all his business life. Born in Eaton Rapids, Mich., he graduated from Ferris Business College at Big Rapids in 1914 and hustled to Flint to start in as a bookkeeper for G.M.'s AC Spark Plug division. Within a year, he was AC's comptroller, the youngest executive (at 21) in the industry. He got a reputation as a comer who could "pitch, catch and cover first base at the same time." He learned finance, production and design, showed an aggressive flair...
When darkness fell on Halloween, the small fry of Ferndale, Mich. (pop. 29,675) were out on the town as usual. They roamed the streets and pushed at doorbells; they begged for cookies and smeared the store windows with slogans written in soap. But one window they steadfastly refused to touch. On the morning after the big night, the plate glass of the Higgins-Pontiac showroom was, as always, clean...
Object Lesson. In Ann Arbor, Mich., after giving his University of Michigan R.O.T.C. class a talk on "Safety with Firearms," Edward S. Patterson accidentally shot himself...