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Vital Statistics. Age: 46 (born March 24, 1902 over a general store in Owosso, Mich.) Ancestry: the only child of George Martin Dewey, publisher of the Owosso Times and later postmaster of Owosso;* grandson of George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas...
...sang in the Episcopal choir, managed a magazine route, worked in his father's print shop. One summer he spent on a nearby farm as a member of the Boys' Working Reserve of World War I. The $800 he saved put him through his first year at Michigan, where he was a serious but not brilliant student, no big man on campus, a member of Phi Mu Alpha fraternity. In his senior year, he won third place in a national singing contest, received a music scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He spent the following summer in Chicago...
Rumania's Michael, visiting sportsman-flyer and speed enthusiast, found life accelerating a little on his U.S. visit. Washington followed Manhattan; next came Dayton, Detroit, then on to Cleveland, Texas, Toledo and Manhattan again. The Governor of Michigan himself flew the ex-king over Detroit ("to show His Majesty this arsenal of democracy"). There were also less hospitable elements. Pro-and anti-Michaelites scuffled briefly in Detroit, and the State Department said it was "taking measures" in recognition of "reports of rumors of a plot...
...Arbor, Mich., La Salle College's Joe Verdeur, 22, broke his own world's record in winning the N.C.A.A. 200-yard breaststroke championship and was voted "outstanding college swimmer of 1948." Team winner of the meet: Michigan...
Tired of Waiting? Michigan's Hayes Manufacturing Corp. (auto parts), which recently declared its first dividend (15^ a share) in 18 years, was having trouble getting it to its stockholders. As several hundred of the dividend checks came back marked "address unknown," the company conscientiously ran newspaper ads in an effort to track down the lost or strayed stockholders...