Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished first was not Nelson, nor either of golf's other two big names-Sam Snead and Ben Hogan-but a new young master from Springfield, Mo. named Herman Reiser. A year ago 31-year-old Golfer Reiser was a storekeeper on the cruiser Cincinnati. He started in front and stayed there until he canned the last putt for a six-under...
...Toes. In Springfield, Mass., when a postman injured his leg, fellow workers took off his shoe and sock, found his toenails red, his face redder. Smirking, he explained: "My wife did that...
...Paul. In Springfield, Mo., Farmer William N. Thompson stuck up Bank No. 1, was nabbed before he could pay off his mortgage to Bank...
Foods & Fred Allen. Bowles always wanted to be in government. From his great-grandfather and grandfather, both named Samuel Bowles, famed liberal editors of the once-famed Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he inherited what he calls "a feeling for the people's side." While he was going through Choate and Yale, with desultory marks for scholarship and high praise for his golf, young Chet kept planning to find a job in Washington...
Flip-Flops to Congreve. Robert Edwin Clark was born, a train conductor's son, in Springfield, Ohio. His first job was carrying papers-"not selling them, mind you. I had a route-I didn't stand on a corner prostituting my art." As a boy he did flip-flops with Paul McCullough in the backyard. The two practiced acrobatics, soon got jobs on the small time. For 30 years they appeared in tent shows, minstrel shows, circuses, burlesque, vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies...