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Soupy Sales,The First Birdbath: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Long Ranger, Black Tooth, Brace Beemer, Atomic Bomb, Europeans, Milton Supman, Roy Rogers, Sinatra, Soupy Sales, Hydrogen Bomb, Pall Mall, It's a Wonderful World, Ohio, Cincinnati, Miller Beer, White Fang, Soupy Shuffle, Detroit, Paradice Valley, Pistons, Birdbaths, Entertainment News
Lester Sloan

Soupy's pies were the great equalizers. Everyone wanted to be hit with a pie thrown by Soupy, even Sinatra. No one was too big or important to get a pie in the face.

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Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited

Lester Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Michigan State, Ford, Walter Reuther, Gran Torino, Anderson Cooper, Detroit Riot, Hybrid Cars, Woodward Avenue, Red Wings, Jim Crow, Eastern Market, Final Four, Lynching, River Rouge, White Flight, Stanley Cup, United Auto Workers Union, Detroit Institute of Art, Arson, Fred Astaire, Devil's Night, Motown, Detroit, Greek Town, St.Lawrence Seaway, Chrysler, Pall Mall, Great Migration, Detroit-Michigan, Healthy Living News
Lester Sloan

Ironically, it is still Detroit that gives the suburbs a sense of place and America a reason to hope.

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Maker Of Camels, Winstons Pulls All Print Ads

New York Times | Stuart Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reynolds American, Cigarette Advertising, American Spirit Cigarettes, Winston Cigarettes, Camel Cigarettes, Pall Mall, Business News

A cigarette maker that once used print advertising to ask smokers to walk a mile for a popular brand is walking away from the medium, at least for nex...

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