Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than a week later, Club President Doyle received a phone call from West Springfield, Mass. Charles Helmar, a carpet factory worker and Springfield public links champion, wanted to explain that he had been Roberts' partner in the Deepdale Calcutta. He had used the name Vitali, said Helmar, because Roberts had said that his partner Vitali was sick and the stunt would do no harm. Roberts had offered Helmar $100 for playing along and had never paid. Both of them, said Helmar, were actually three-handicap golfers...
Into the Market. With more money than ever before to buy art, even small museums are dipping into the market. The Springfield (Mo.) Art Museum recently picked up an Albrecht Dürer print, a Ben Shahn painting, Mother and Child, and a 10th century Persian bowl. The big, endowed museums are taking a back seat to no one, e.g., the St. Louis City Art Museum's purchase this month of a Frans Hals portrait for $150,000. Kansas City's collection, which goes back 4,000 years to a Sumerian statue, also goes forward to a recent...
...moonshiners have flooded New England, he said, mentioning discovery of a $250,000 still last year by federal "revenuers" in Walpole, 20 miles from Boston, and of others in this and the Springfield area. "I hope they don't get any over in Cambridge," he added...
...Very Progressive." In nearby North Springfield, Va., the businesslike Russians inspected a big new tract of mass-built, medium-priced ($14,000-$18,000) houses. On the way, they commented on the lack of flowers along the roads, later expressed amazement that so many trees had been cut down at the building site. "In Russia," one of them said, "anyone who cuts down a tree without permission is heavily fined...
Also, if Walsh were to profit financially from the games, the A.A.U.'s actions could be explained. But actually all profits from the tour will go toward the building of a Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield...