Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois, last week threw a handful of lemons at fraternal and veterans' organizations and private clubs which keep slot machines on their premises. He said that such clubs operate 93% of the 1,783 machines in southern Illinois. Then, in a speech to the County Bar Association in Springfield, he went on to point a moral considerably more important than slot machines. "I know all the arguments about 'the slot machine in the country club is one thing and the slot machine in the corner saloon another,'" he said. "But I also know that the machine...
...race in Springfield, ILL. last August, he gave a demonstration of how such teamwork pays off. The track was soft and spongy as the qualifying runs began, so Bettenhausen, like his rivals, had geared his car low to reduce skidding. But when he finally made his own run the surface had turned clay-hard. Tony had Mechanic Tiny Worley hike his gear ratio for the fast track. When the starting flag dropped, he roared away from his lower-geared competition, won the event going away...
Reflected Glory. In Springfield, Mass., Winston Churchill was nominated for the board of aldermen in the Republican primaries, and Robert Taft for school committeeman...
...Musical Revue of the Football Season," is the theme of the first half of the concert. The band will execute, the Springfield, Holy Cross, Columbia, Cornell, West Point, and Crimson medleys, all arranged by Leroy Anderson '29 and John A. Finnegan '47. At the Army-Harvard contest, Finnegan's "Crimson Medley" was presented for the first time...
...first half. Springfield ran circles around the Crimson. The Springfield forwards easily got around both the half and fullbacks, playing a long-kicking, hit and run game. In the second half, however, fullback Charlie Ufford was able to get control of the ball, and the game was more even...