Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Springfield mayor scheduled the meeting in the Littauer office of Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and an O'Connor supporter from the start, before participating on the hour-long Channel 2 program, "Ask the Candidate." As he left the Square to continue man-in-the-street politicking in Revere, O'Connor said, "I feel much more confident after talking with them (the professors...
...rummage sale is a well-entrenched church institution, and few people know more about it than Sylvia McDaniel. 63, who helps to run a "next-to-new shop" in Springfield, Mo. With her help, Springfield's Christ Church (Episcopal) has raised funds with rummage sales for 25 years. In the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, not long ago, Rummager McDaniel let readers in on some trade secrets. Items...
...appetite: it took him six years, from 1945 to 1951, to swallow the Jersey City Jersey Journal, and he is still trying diligently to enlarge the 15% bite he took in the Denver Post last June.* Right after Denver, hungry Sam Newhouse invited himself to a newspaper feast in Springfield, Mass. But by last week his New England dinner was biting back...
...Inglorious End." Newhouse paid some $4,000,000 for what will eventually be a controlling 85% of Springfield's three papers, the morning Union (circ. 81,000), the evening News (100,000) and the Sunday Republican (112,000). The papers are the succulent descendants of a family empire founded in 1824 by Samuel Bowles. Newhouse's buy included possession rights to a 45% stock holding that belonged to the widow and four children of Sherman Hoar Bowles, the papers' eccentric last dynastic proprietor, who died in 1952. But until 1967. voting rights to that 45% are held...
...Just as Stubborn." Confronted with such stern resistance, Newhouse has sued in U.S. District Court in Boston for the right to examine the books. He does not deny a consuming curiosity about the papers' pension fund, which finances employee benefits unparalleled in the U.S. press. A Springfield newspaper employee of 30 years can retire at 60 at full pay for life. To support such generosity, Newhouse says, the fund has assets in excess of $17 million...