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- Jimmy Hoffa was born on 14 February 1913 in Brazil, Indiana, USA. He was married to Josephine Poszywak. He died on 30 July 1975 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
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Robin Browne was born on 24 November 1941 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Moonraker (1979), Krull (1983) and For Your Eyes Only (1981). He was married to Judy Doetze. He died on 28 March 2024 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.- Actor
- Director
Cullen Landis was born on 9 July 1896 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Lights of New York (1928), Perils of the Coast Guard (1926) and Easy Money (1925). He was married to Jane Grenier and Mignon Le Brun. He died on 26 August 1975 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.- Art Director
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Alexander Toluboff was born in 1882 in Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland]. He was an art director and production designer, known for Stagecoach (1939), Vogues of 1938 (1937) and Algiers (1938). He was married to Theodora MacManus. He died on 1 July 1940 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.- Frank H. Boos was born on 13 June 1935 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Nancy Boos. He died on 9 May 2006 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- 15-time All-Star Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers was one of the premier baseball players of his generation, slugging 399 home-runs and amassing 3,007 hits in those less-statistics crazy times. (In this era, Kaline -- who announced his retirement before his final season of 1974 and stuck to it -- would have come back for another season to hit homer #400, one of the great benchmarks of that time, before steroids and human growth hormone made nonsense to the baseball power-hitting records in the late 1990s.) The winner of 10-gold gloves for fielding excellence, Kaline was greatly respected as an all-around star player with all the tools, like his contemporary Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox, who became the first American League Player to hit 400 dingers and 3,000 hits in 1979.
Kaline, who had the desire to excel at baseball, did not have the desire to upstage Yaz by pointing out that it was something he easily could have done, and was gracious when the Red Sox left fielder set the milestones in 1979. Perhaps Kaline could afford to be generous, for unlike Yaz, who was perpetually a bridesmaid and never a bride when it came to the post-season (Yaz's BoSox even lost the A.L. East pennant to Kaline and Billy Martin's Tigers by Tigers won the 1968 World's Championship. Distinct underdogs to the the same St. Louis Cardinals team, and post-season marvel Bob Gibson, who had beaten Yaz's "Impssible Dream" BoSox the year before and had whipped the last team of the great Yankees Dynasty, the '64 Bronx Bombers of Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Elston Howard and Whitey Ford, the Tigers made history by staging one of the great upsets in World Series history. The '68 battle royal for the World's Championship was almost as good, and legendary, as the '67 Series, and like the previous match-up of the Cards and the American League contender, it had gone done to the seventh and deciding game. Though the Cardinals were mighty, it was the Tigers behind the pitching of donut-maven Mickey Lolich who prevailed. Al hit .379 with two homers and eight runs batted in during the Series, further establishing his credentials as a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
Al Kaline had been signed as a "Bonus Baby" by the Tigers in 1953, and under the extant rules of Major League Baseball, had gone straight to the major league team, bypassing the minor leagues. (To justify the bonus, or rather, to limit the payout of large bonuses, MLB required teams signing young players to large bonuses to keep them on the major league roster for part of the year, every year, or lose them.) The 18-year old Kaline came up for a cup of coffee with the Tigers in 1953, and then played a total of 22 seasons for them, a record only surpassed by Yaz for the Red Sox and Brooks Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles, who in those pre-free-agent times, played a total of 23 years for the same team. Kaline blossomed early, winning his first and only batting title in 1955, at the tender age of 20, leading both leagues with a .340 average. Kaline became the youngest player ever to win a batting title, establishing that record by nosing out fellow Tiger Ty Cobb by one day.
Although he never won a Most Valuable Player Award, Kaline ranked in the Top 10 in M.V.P. votes nine times between 1955 and 1967, coming in second in '55 and '63 and third in '56. Never a true power hitter, he was remarkably consistent and steady in his production, hitting a minimum of 25 homers seven times and hitting over .300 nine times, playing primarily in what is becoming known as baseball's second "Dead Ball Era". His superb fielding was a marvel, and he once went 242 consecutive games in the field without committing an error. Kaline was the type of player a general manager dreams of building a franchise around.
Fittingly, Al Kaline was known as "Mr. Tiger" when he retired after the 1974 season. Kaline was the most popular player in the Detroit franchise's history (the dyspeptic Cobb was a greater player and highly respected by Tigers fans, but not particularly beloved). After his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York in his first year of eligibility, his number 6 was the first number ever to be retired by the Tigers. - Bill Davidson was born on 5 December 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Karen Weidman. He died on 13 March 2009 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- George Romney, now known primarily as the father of Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, was a distinguished politician himself, as well as being a successful businessman. Born on July 8, 1907 in the Mormon Colony in Mexico, his family moved to Utah due to the upheavals caused by the 1911 Mexican Revolution. In high school, he fell in love with the woman who became his wife, Lenore Romney, the daughter of Harold Arundel LaFount, an English immigrant and Mormon who later was appointed to the Federal Radio Commission by President Calvin Coolidge. Romney continued to woo her after she moved to Washington, D.C.
Lenore was an aspiring actress who gave up a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to marry George in 1931. They were married for 64 years, until George's death in 1995. In addition to Mitt, their last child, they had another son and two daughters and many grand-children. An executive with Alcoa, George's business career took them to Michigan, where they set down roots as when he became an automobile industry executive and then a politician.
After his stint as the first C.E.O. of American Motors (1954-62), George won the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1962 and was elected governor of Michigan, a state that generally trended Democratic. The popular governor was re-elected in 1964 for another two-year term and in 1966 for a four-year term.
In November 1966, the Gallup Poll had him eight points ahead of Richard Nixon among likely Republican Presidential candidates, making him the front-runner as Nixon, who lost the 1960 Presidential election to 'John F Kennedy' in a squeaker but then was a sore loser when he was soundly beaten by incumbent Edmund G. Brown in the 1962 California gubernatorial contest, was uncommitted. Romney launched an exploratory campaign in February 1967, but as Nixon warmed to another run, Romney's poll numbers began to slide.
In July, he oversaw one of the worst riots in U.S. history when Detroit exploded as African Americans rebelled against what they saw as police harassment. Ironically, Romney had done much to foster better race relations, including politically embracing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and distancing himself from the paleo-conservative Barry Goldwater, who had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Michigan National Guard was unable to contain the riot, necessitating an appeal to his potential rival, President Lyndon B. Johnson, for federal troops.
LBJ was the civil rights president, and Romney was a civil rights governor, albeit, a Republican and possible foe in the 1968 Presidential election. The Johnson administration demanded that Governor Romney declare that Detroit was in a state of insurrection before federal troops would be committed, a move Romney was reluctant to make. With Detroit burning down, he had to relent; troops were sent in to restore order, and Romney denounced LBJ for playing politics.
By the time he formally launched his campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination in November 1967, he was 28 points behind Nixon. The problem was a comment he had made about the Vietnam War.
Romney had been a supporter of the war, having traveled to South Vietnam in 1965. In 1966, his son Mitt, a freshman at Stanford University, had even staged a pro-draft demonstration that was a counter-demonstration to a "sit-in" against the Stanford University President. Before Mitt came back from a 30-month stint as a Mormon missionary in France that began after his freshman year in college, his father had changed his mind.
At the end of August '67, in a taped interview with a Detroit radio talk show host, Romney made one of the greatest gaffes in American political history when he said, "When I came back from Vietnam, I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get."
The former hawk announced that he was now against the war. "I no longer believe that it was necessary for us to get involved in South Vietnam to stop Communist aggression in Southeast Asia," and called for "a sound peace in South Vietnam at an early time."
The reversal of his position on the war, which he had earlier said was "morally right and necessary", was a major negative for a Republican, but his "brainwashing" comment effectively doomed him. It got a huge play in the media, which portrayed him as a bumbling buffoon. Republican and Democratic politicians alike commented that Romney must be weak-minded if he was able to be brainwashed. U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, an anti-war candidate whose strong second place finish in the 1968 New Hampshire primary would knock LBJ out of the running, said that in Romney's case, "a light rinse would have been sufficient."
By the time he formally announced his candidacy on November 18, 1967, he was 28 points behind Nixon in the polls. He began to campaign in New Hampshire, which held its primary on March 12th. Returning to Vietnam in December 1967, he made speeches that anticipated Nixon's Vietnamization policy of turning over the war to South Vietnamese troops while winding down U.S. combat troop involvement.
His poll numbers remained poor, with Nixon being the overwhelming favorite in New Hampshire a fortnight out from the primary. Romney's dismal showing led Nelson Rockefeller, the liberal Republican governor of New York who had been a supporter, to announce that while he still supported Romney, he would be open to a draft. (Rocky had lost the 1964 nomination to Goldwater, whose candidacy the equally liberal Romney, who was a staunch supporter of civil rights, had bitterly opposed. Rocky's decision to forgo 1968 was one reason Romney had gotten into the race.)
Rockefeller's announcement, setting him up as a heavy-weight alternative to Nixon and incumbent President Johnson (who was still in the race), was national news and effectively doomed Romney's candidacy. Romney blamed Rockefeller's entry into the race as the major factor that derailed his bid for the presidency. He quit the race two weeks out from the New Hampshire primary. LBJ, in turn, dropped out after his humiliation by McCarthy, and Nixon went on to best Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan at the GOP convention and defeat LBJ's Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in November.
President Nixon appointed Romney his Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a position he held through Nixon's first term and one for which he was well suited. After leaving the Nixon Administration in January 1973, Romney began a life of public service. He was a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, becoming a top official of both the Michigan and national churches.
George Romney died on July 26, 1995, a little less than three weeks after his 88th birthday. - William R. Ebersol was born on 1 October 1923 in the USA. He was an actor, known for The Best Man (1964). He died on 9 December 2010 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- John J. Saunders was born on 14 April 1920 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Moontrap (1988) and Mideast Midwest (2008). He died on 10 July 2011 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Hal Newhouser was born on 20 May 1921 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Beryl Margaret Steele. He died on 10 November 1998 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
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Daniel Mandlebaum was born on 2 January 1905. Daniel is known for Young Man's Fancy (1952), American Look (1958) and American Maker (1960). Daniel died on 30 November 1995 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.- Grace Costello was born on 4 April 1930 in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Johnny Doughboy (1942) and Cinderella Swings It (1943). She died on 10 August 2013 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Darris McCord was born on 4 January 1933 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Paper Lion (1968), The NFL on CBS (1956) and 1958 East-West Pro Bowl (1958). He was married to Helen. He died on 9 October 2013 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Drew Sharp was born on 25 April 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was married to Karen. He died on 21 October 2016 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Alfred Taubman was born on 31 January 1924 in Pontiac, Michigan, USA. He was married to Judith Mazor Rounick and Reva Kolodney. He died on 17 April 2015 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Charlie Gehringer was born on 11 May 1903 in Fowlerville, Michigan, USA. He was married to Josephine Stillen. He died on 21 January 1993 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Stanford R. Ovshinsky was born on 24 November 1922 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was married to Iris L. Miroy, Norma Rifkin and Rosa Young. He died on 17 October 2012 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Jim Ochs was born on 25 January 1951. He was an actor, known for Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013), Demoted (2011) and Hoffa (1992). He died on 14 December 2020 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA.