Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week by practically putting itself out of business. To make ends meet, they sold their two best players: hard-hitting Third Baseman Bob Dillinger and an outfielder to the Philadelphia A's (for $100,000 and four players) and cracker jack Second Baseman Jerry Priddy to the Detroit Tigers (for $125,000 and a pitcher). To help inspire confidence among the players they have left, the Browns had hired a consulting psychologist...
When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...
Dayton, Ohio: J. H. Ruggles, 2727 Inland Avenue; Eastern lowa (Cordar Rapids): December 27, Sumner H. Foster '32, 2060 Glass Road NE; Eastern Michigan (Detroit): Clark T. Wells '34, 96 Handy Road, Grosse Point Farms; Eastern New York: December 28, Donald Collins, Education Building, Albany...
...least one observer thought the whole question was academic. The day after the Louis-Valentino exhibition, Manager Tex Sullivan withdrew his fighter, Lee Oma, from a scheduled ten-round match with Louis in Detroit. Complained Sullivan: "Those aren't exhibitions, they're real wars . . . Louis isn't planning a comeback, he's already back...
...Detroit 5, Boston...