Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McInnis has Bob Ward, who stopped Amherst on three hits last Wednesday, ready for the Crusaders. Barry, will start right-hander Jim O'Neil, and can use lefty Dick Dogdon, who pitched a no-hit game Saturday against Springfield, for relief...
...Richard S. Whitcomb. They had plenty. He had been general sales manager of the 'telephone company in Boston, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1938, and a colonel in World War II. There was one discrepancy: his home town was Longmeadow, a suburb of Springfield, and not Worcester...
After slapdash checking, Boston papers (Post, Herald, Traveler, Globe, Advertiser) and the Springfield Republican and News ran the story. Some used pictures of Richard S. Whitcomb of Longmeadow...
...time of Richard F. Whitcomb's conviction, he was president of a Boston drug company and his name was listed in the Boston phone book. The papers quickly printed retractions, but Whitcomb filed separate libel suits for $250,000 each against the Boston papers, the U.P. and the Springfield Republican and News...
Last week a jury awarded Whitcomb (now a brigadier general on active duty) a total of $65,000 against the Boston papers (Suits against the Springfield Republican and News, and the U.P.-which said Whitcomb was from Longmeadow-are yet to be heard.) The A.P., which had relayed the wrong name to the U.S. m the first place, was lucky. It had not picked up the beefed-up Boston stories, hence stayed out of trouble...