Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married and divorced from 1) a Springfield, Mass. barber named Frank White ("God, he smelled nice!"), 2) Nicky Arnstein, 3) Billy Rose, Fanny is now a Hollywood homebody, recently affected by inner-ear trouble which bothers her equilibrium. Her principal hobby is painting-her home swarms with relatives, in-laws, friends, all painting away like mad. Of her own works, Fanny complains: "They always come out primitive...
This time John L. found his authority challenged by one Ray Edmundson, 42, of Springfield, Ill. For nine years husky Ray Edmundson had been the Lewis-appointed president of U.M.W.'s tough, bloody Illinois district, at $8,000 a year. Five months ago he threw up this sinecure, went back to the mines, and began fighting John L. on the issue of union autonomy, i.e., the right of districts to elect their own officers. (Of U.M.W.'s 31 districts, 21 are ruled by Lewis-appointed men, giving John L. near-perfect dictatorial control...
...mowing 'em down. Last week he had won 69 straight games in three years of Army pitching (including a recent victory over Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League). The Fort Lewis (Wash.) pitcher is a 30-year-old ex-minor leaguer, who won 24, lost 19 with Springfield of the Three-I League before retiring with a sore arm. The St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals and Detroit had liked his fast ball but labeled him too frail (150 lbs.) to stand the gaff. On Army beans, he has gained 20 lbs., and made a record that is sure...
...newspaper headlines and pictures, passes tactfully on to speeches for tolerance by representatives of press, church and government. Almost one-third of the picture's 20 minutes is devoted to the Negro in the South and his gradual economic emancipation. Climax is an analysis of the famous Springfield (Mass.) Plan for fostering community action through public and parochial schools...
...Pittsburgh Dewey had told the press: "The United States simply cannot face another period like the Roosevelt depression, which lasted for eight years, with more than 10,000,000 unemployed continuously from 1933 to 1940, inclusive." At Springfield he had said: "We hold elections in this country in the midst of total war. . . . We hold this election because we know that we destroy the ideology of those we strike. Their strength depends upon one man. Our strength depends upon the American people, and upon...