Word: milwaukeean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Fireworks. "The Problem now," says the Art Institute's director, Edward H. Dwight, 38, "is to keep them coming." Director D wight can apparently count on the drawing power of the new building's architecture. "It just insists that you wander in," said one Milwaukeean. When the city staged a fireworks celebration for its World Series-winning Braves last month in front of the Memorial Center, some 7,100 celebrators decided to take in the art show. Many of them had never been in an art gallery...
...calling the repair-shop owner, threatening to come down and "punch the first person I see in the nose." Others try the food gambit, laying on sandwiches, beer or liquor for the repairman. And when all else fails, a wife can call the repairman's wife. Says one Milwaukeean: "I asked her how she'd like to keep house without any kitchen water: Did she have some influence on her husband? Did she? Boy, he was out the next day and fixed things fast...
...parking sign like a rifle and marched off. Car horns brayed; a band came out of a restaurant, and somebody organized a snake dance. Before the celebration broke up at 3:45 a.m., the police had arrested seven men-three for drunkenness, four for disorderly conduct. "Any Milwaukeean ought to be forgiven, because last night was a night to remember," said Judge Robert Hansen next day. "Case dismissed...
...Glore, Forgan & Co., to swindle three prominent businessmen in an oil scheme. The victims: brothers Richard and John Herzfeld, who were part owners of Milwaukee's Boston Store until it sold out to the Federated Department Stores chain (TIME, Dec. 20, 1948), and Robert P. McCulloch. former Milwaukeean who is now president of McCulloch Motors, which grosses $40 million a year making power saws, superchargers and plane parts...
...Journal, as alert and sharp-eyed as a rooster, has a tabloid-moralistic habit of playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break...