Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...
...picked last night at a secret meeting of William J. Bingham's Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. And if an amazing string of coincidences and circumstantial evidences ever proved a case, the new coach is one Arthur Valpey, assistant to Fritz Crisler at the University of Michigan...
Arthur Valpey, the leading candidate for the job as of two weeks ago, arrived at Logan International Airport this morning and apparently spent most of the day with Bingham and his old friend, Bill Barclay, former freshman football coach at Michigan and current Crimson basketball coach. H.A.A. publicity director Arthur Sampson thought he had been flown in from Detroit "to meet the members of the Committee," but said Bingham had given him nothing to publicize. He was unaware of the impending Watson release...
...overtime jinx that had plagued Harvard in the Michigan State and Columbia games sneaked in again for a third time, and another two-point loss went down in the record books...
...from Fraternity Rows all over the nation. At the University of California at Los Angeles, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter was 13 years ahead on its mortgage payments. The University of Southern California's Phi Kappa Psis had just dedicated a new $120,000 house. University of Michigan fraternities were overflowing into nearby rooming-house "annexes...