Word: michiganisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crackpots & Misfits. Bing was expelled from high school for sassing a teacher and went to work as a printer's devil, later as a $2.50-a-week office boy at the Detroit News, Michigan's biggest daily (present circ...
...took Managing Editor Dale Stafford to keep young (26) Schermerhorn from taking a punch at 64-year-old Newsman Bingay. More than one Detroit newsman wished Stafford had not bothered. Big (205 lbs.) Malcolm ("Bing") Bingay is one of Michigan's best known citizens, but hardly one of its best loved. His autobiography is a revealing self-portrait of an editorial egocentric who made good...
Bing's blunders are as celebrated as his successes. He made most of Michigan mad with an abusive obituary of the respected Senator James Couzens. He ran a frontpage article accusing Radio Father Charles E. Coughlin of "congenital inability to tell the truth," and Father Coughlin filed a $4,000,000 libel suit against the Free Press (the suit was dropped). Day after last November's election, the Free Press carried an editorial announcing Dewey's victory...
...Michigan State, which recently made headlines by becoming the tenth member of the Big Nine, made some more by running off with the I.C.4-A. (for Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America) track championship at Madison Square Garden over runners-up Yale and 44 other colleges. Best individual performance of the meet: an American indoor-record heave of 60 ft. 7¾ in. by rawboned Jim Scholtz, a West Point first-classman, with the 35-lb. weight...
...Yale and Army pack the real wallop. The Elis finished second behind Michigan State in the IC4-A meet last Saturday. Jim Fuchs, a hippo-gazelle athlete, should win the shot and may also wind up first in the dash. George Wade won the IC4-A mile in 4:13, and sophomore George Appel took the pole vault in the same meet at 14 feet...