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...would a bank president." As pitchman he is less happy. Too often he is called upon to spray himself with Bactine disinfectant and sing "Down go the mean old germs," take great chunks of Silver Cup Bread (backed by offbeat sound effects) and shriek "The Best Bread in Deeee-troit." When he downs his Vite-A-Minnies, children all over Detroit follow suit. "The mothers love me," says Soupy. He also gets the thanks of the fathers by offering such sound advice as: "When you are in the car with Daddy, don't shout or climb all over...
...Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Robert Louis Stevenson's Sire de Malètroit's Door...
Their title-clinching game with the De troit Lions was a fair sample of how the air-minded Rams operate. The play-for-pay boys scarcely had their hair mussed when Waterfield passed to veteran end Jim Benton for 57 yards. For the rest of the afternoon Waterfield kept on pitching to Benton. When it was over, Benton had caught ten Waterfield heaves for 303 yards, a league record. Score: Cleveland 28, Detroit...
...travesty" and "disgustingly inadequate." The Detroit Free Press called it a "white wash" and "an insult to the fighting forces." The Detroit Times said "it will smell to heaven," and went back 131 years to find a local parallel of military shame when "the coward Hull surrendered De troit to the British without even swinging a punch...
...meeting and it was voted not to evacuate the Flint plants because General Motors had "double-crossed" the union in promising to bargain with non-union workers. To this were added other allegations of bad faith: that the company planned to reopen the evacuated Cadillac plant in De troit, to prevent picketing of its evacuated plant at Anderson, Ind. Mr. Martin telegraphed Senator La Follette demanding a Senate investigation of the Flint Alliance...