Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERGREEN PARK, ILL., Drury Lane Theater: Arms and the Man. Vintage Shaw only improves with age. His satire on the romantic view of life, love, and glory has almost as much bite today as it did when it first appeared, only a few years after the long-forgotten Serbo-Bulgarian...
Bloomington, Ill...
...Means Committee deleted the veto provision by a vote of 9 to 2 before reporting the bill out late Monday. Senate president Maurice A. Donahue (D-Holyoke) put off the crucial vote on the measure until yesterday in deference to Minority Leader Philip A. Graham (R. Hamilton), who was ill...
...affluence and influence. His paternal grandfather, after whom he was named, was Vice President during Grover Cleveland's second term. His maternal great grandfather, Jesse Fell, was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, helped arrange the Lincoln-Douglas debates. His mother's family owned the prosperous Bloomington, Ill., Daily Pantagraph, and his father managed the Stevenson family's vast farm lands, later became Illinois' secretary of state...
...took the beating he had expected, and he was a graceful loser. In his concession speech to weeping admirers in Springfield, Ill., he said in a somewhat halting way: "Someone asked me, as I came in, how I felt, and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell-Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh...