Word: owosso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey hustled his family on board a train at Albany for a trip west. Ostensibly, the trip was a vacation to visit his wife's family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last...
...would swing down to Sapulpa, Okla. to see his in-laws; up to Kansas City for a night's rest; out to Salt Lake City for the Governors' Conference; back to Owosso, Mich, to see his mother and to show his alma mater, the University of Michigan, to Tom Jr. He explained: "We've always wanted the boys to know the West as soon as they were old enough to appreciate...
...claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...
...about a little head-shaving in Owosso...
...biggest wishes is that the girls of Owosso are not a true picture of "the girls we left behind." Of all morale-destroying episodes, that incident is the most devastating we have ever heard...