Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Johnnie Witherspoon's lacrosse ten will open its home season tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock when it meets the Springfield stickmen on the field behind the Business School. In view of his team's promising showing on the spring tour of the South, Witherspoon expects great things of his squad...
...night he returned to his Springfield, Ill., home, according to his chauffeur, he went down to the cellar and burned a briefcaseful of papers. Next day, his agitation so alarmed his wife that she sent for State Police Chief Walter Williams. Chief Williams found Mr. Smith pacing his living room, muttering nervously that someone was trying to get him. Abruptly he excused himself and went into the kitchen, yanked a long-bladed knife from a drawer and stabbed himself over the heart and in the neck. Williams rushed him to a doctor. The wounds were not serious. After they...
...Nevada's McCarran, Indiana's Van Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...Sandburg's packed, four-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Gangling Playwright Robert E. Sherwood wrote the script, Lincolnesque Raymond Massey, in Chicago playing Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, read the lead. The radio version was an episodic but surprisingly well-linked Lincoln cycle, from Springfield in a stovepipe hat (1861) back to Springfield in a cortege...
...Most suitably labeled of Superman's stations is WHAM, Rochester, N. Y. Others: WOR, Manhattan; WBZ, Boston; WCAU, Philadelphia; WTIC, Hartford; WJAR, Providence; WFBL, Syracuse; WGR, Buffalo; WGY, Schenectady; WGBI, Scranton; WBZ A, Springfield, Mass...