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It was not an auspicious debut. Mom strummed the ukulele in the blind pig that she operated in Lansing, Mich., and out onto the floor came a skinny, freckled five-year-old named Betty June Thornburg, with her sister Marion, seven. While the speakeasy customers sipped needled beer, the blonde...
A Real Bad Hurt. Betty's life began on Feb. 26, 1921, in Battle Creek, Mich., "by the railroad tracks between Postum and Kellogg." She was two when her father, a railroad brakeman named Percy Thornburg, drifted off to California with another woman. Soon after, the mother took Betty...
The first thing that John A. Hannah did when he became president of Michigan State College at East Lansing in 1941 was to order the door of his office taken down and carted away. A friendly, floppy-gaited man, he wanted everybody to feel free to walk right in and...
The varsity had little trouble handing Michigan State its seventh successive defeat in an Ivy League-Western Conference series at East Lansing, Michigan, on December 28.
One night later, the varsity played Ohio State an even game, again in East Lansing, until five minutes into the second half when the score stood 32 all. Then the Buckeyes outwitted the Crimson's man to man defense, and 12 minutes before the game ended, they had a ten...