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Other participating teams are Amherst, Brown, Colby, University of Connecticut, Springfield, and Dartmouth. The varsity beat the Big Green here last season, but lost the return match. It toppled Brown here also, with a late surge. UConn always has a strong team; last season it was one of the best in the East...
This week, eight years after the rescue of Star Dust, President Eisenhower signed a bill awarding Ruckman his $250 without interest. In Springfield, Businessman Ruckman, who considered his claim "a matter of honor," was philosophic about the delay. Said he: "I think the Government should be frugal and consider things like this carefully...
After the war George Ruckman, now a leather salesman in Springfield, 111., put in a claim for $250 to cover part of his personal expenses in repairing Star Dust. In 1951, after the Army Finance Center coldly informed him that it was "not authorized to develop claims involving accounts where the disbursing officer is in doubt as to the propriety of payment," George Ruckman took his case to Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen...
...Armory and Arsenal at Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real...
Harvard dropped its first three games, to Amherst, Springfield, and Northeastern, and holds a three-win, three-loss record. Two Crimson games have been rained...