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copy boy for the Associated Press in
New York ... today he is a highly-
respected sportswriter for the Detroit
News ... following stints with the old
Detroit Times, Detroit Free Press and
Sporting News.
Joe's 72 now, and has been writing
about sports for 55 years ... covering
40 world series, 15 super bowls, 20
Kentucky Derbys, 25 Indy 500s, 20
Masters and countless U.S. Open Golf
tourneys, Rose Bowls, Stanley Cups,
NBA championships, Final Four tour-
naments and many thousands of
major league baseball games.
He is also author of the fine book,
50 Years of Sports Writing (And I Still
Can't Tell the Difference Between a
Slider and a Curve).
Joe will be given the Alvin Foon
Memorial Award, presented for out-
standing contributions to sports and
athletics in the State of Michigan ... at
this year's 16th Annual Michigan
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Induction
Dinner.
Date is ... Monday, Nov. 6 ... at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek 6 p.m.
cocktail hour, fine walk-around buffet
dinner, sports memorabilia silent auc-
tion, games and fun for the kids, etc.
Tickets are $125, adult members;
$150, non-members.
About the youths ... children and
grandchildren, 17 years and under,
will again get in with tickets priced
according to their age (15 years old is
$15, etc.)
Inducted this year will be ... Jeffrey
Deitch, state singles and doubles
squash champion; Paul Groffs , one-
time captain of the University of
Michigan basketball team; and
Bernard Kohn, former swimming All-
American.
For info or tickets ... call Elayne
Wolfson, assistant executive director of
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation ...
(248) 788-0921.
CONGRATS ... to Howard Maloff
... on his 50th birthday ... to Shirley
and Ray Abrams, on their birthdays ...
to Pam Smith ... on her birthday.
SIGN ON THE DOOR of the
Woodward and 14 Mile Road Little
Daddy's, which recently closed its
doors, asks customers to go to another
of its restaurants on Woodward, south
of Long Lake Road.
THE RUMOR is much stronger
that Larco's has signed a pact to open
a second location, at the former Flying
Fish locale on Orchard Lake Road and
15 Mile ... According to Peter Bershaj,
owner of Gateway Deli, and former
Larco employee, "Mark has made it a
done deal." D

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