Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athletic director Bill Bingham, the man behind the drive for better basketball, scoured the country, and came up with William L. Barclay, assistant coach at the University of Michigan. Soft-spoken in manner, energetic, Iron-willed Barclay took effective command of the situation. Building around a nucleus of only two superior players, Barclay squeezed every possible ounce of talent out of his small squad and came up with a quintet that has been a credit to crimson colors, handing the championship Columbia five its only loss in Ivy League play, as well as downing Yale and complling...
Congressman Albert Engel of Michigan, taking one look at this onslaught on the U.S. Treasury, another look at the economically bankrupt, politically epileptic country of Greece, and another look at Britain, uttered the first angry yelp. Why, Engel demanded, should the U.S. pull "Britain's fat out of the fire...
Forget the Milk. Another authority, Dr. Philip Jay, director of the University of Michigan's Dental Caries Research Laboratory, cited a study of 300 starving natives of India. Most had excellent teeth (40% had no cavities; 95% of the well-fed U.S. population has cavities). Dentist Jay also drilled deep into another pair of common beliefs: 1) that milk is good for adults' teeth because it provides them with calcium; and 2) that a pregnant woman is vulnerable to tooth decay. Not so, says Jay: after tooth enamel is formed (in childhood), nothing can be done either...
...investing: everything he has touched (notable exceptions: his annuity and three Chicago apartment houses) seemed to turn to red ink. Among others, there was the Brown Bomber softball team ($30,000 loss), a Detroit restaurant called the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack (about $15,000), a Michigan dude ranch ($25,000), and his flyer last fall in West Coast pro football ($7,500). He gets about 350 fan letters a week, mostly from women, and mostly wanting money...
...polite tones seldom used across the industrial bargaining table, the delegates aired views ranging from moderate left to far right. But a cooperative spirit prevailed. (The hotel shortage forced a New Haven publisher and a Michigan CVLO official to share a single room...