Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face some hard realities. He was virtually unprepared for the exacting business of running for the presidency. He had no personal campaign staff. He did not even have a headquarters with enough paper clips and typists. The telephone lines at the governor's mansion in Springfield were inadequate. Above all, Stevenson knew that if he permitted the impression that he was being run by the Democratic National Committee, by Harry Truman and the party bosses, he would lose votes. Last week he acted fast to dispel that impression...
...Your Prayers." While the beginnings of a campaign staff assembled in a hastily rented, nine-room, two-story red brick house in Springfield, Stevenson told state officials to carry on as much .as possible on their own, but he let it be known that for the time being he had no intention of resigning as governor. (He would have a much tighter grip on the state Democratic organization as long as he was in office.) He also announced his choice for a successor: Lieutenant Governor Sherwood Dixon, 56, no ball of fire but an amiable, honest administrator, backed by Jack...
...Rocking Chair. His first evening back in Springfield, Stevenson called the custodian of Lincoln's house, where Lincoln had lived between 1844 and 1861, and from where he had gone to the White House. Stevenson said he just wanted to drop by for a visit. The door was unlocked for the governor. From 11 p.m. to midnight Adlai Stevenson stayed alone in the living room. No one is sure what he did there, but some say that for a time he sat in Abraham Lincoln's rocking chair, meditating...
...colleagues, and still never pass up an opportunity to play cops & robbers. Six weeks ago, Managing Editor Harry Reutlinger saw his chance again when a used-car dealer named Robert L. Knetzer,charged with swindling customers out of about $1,500,000 (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), escaped from a Springfield, Ill. jail. Reutlinger called in his star crime reporter, Leroy ("Buddy") McHugh, and gave him the kind of assignment that Herald-American staffers often get but seldom succeed in: find Knetzer, badly wanted...
Rainbow's End. In Springfield, Ill., Mel Kampe won the big drawing at a local picnic, commented breathlessly: "Man! I never won anything in my life," wondered what to do with his twelve tons of stone...