Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the winning design was announced: a stainless steel, streamlined, 590-ft.-high arch to rise beside the Mississippi on a site which was formerly occupied mostly by old warehouses. The arch, with a "funicular elevator and observation corridor," had first reared in the mind of a talented Michigan architect named Eero Saarinen, who, with his father Eliel, is a frequent winner of architectural competitions. His prize this time: $40,000 and a warm recommendation to Washington. (Congress must approve the "Jefferson National Expansion Memorial," as it is to be called, and put up most of the estimated...
Hamtramck (pronounced ham-tram-mick) is a Polish factory community entirely encircled by Detroit and submerged by politics. Hamtramck's manners are Old World; but its morals have produced more political scandals than any city in Michigan. Mayors have become convicts; ex-convicts have become Congressmen. Once Hamtramck boasted a model school system which some optimists thought might save the place...
Like Valpey, who was named head coach only two weeks ago, both new assistants are Michigan graduates. Jordan, 34-year old assistant line coach of the Michigan varsity eleven for the last two years, played guard and tackle for three years while an undergraduate...
Nelson, age 30, played three years of football, basketball, and baseball while in college and, in 1940, played wingback in the same backfield with All-America Tom Harmon. He has served as athletic director and head football coach at Hillsdale College, Michigan, for the last two years where his terms ran up a string of 15 consecutive victories...
...Michigan's assistant line coach--at present, anyway--Butch Jordan, claimed that Valpey, along with backfield coach Remio Oosterbann, was responsible for many of the Maize and Blue's most intricate offensive manonvers last fall