Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twenty Days covers the period from the moment Lincoln fell mortally wounded to the time his body was laid to rest at Springfield. Authors Dorothy and Philip Kunhardt are mother and son. Mrs. Kunhardt's father, the late Frederick Hill Meserve, devoted a lifetime to collecting photographs of Lincoln and his times. This famed collection was left to Mrs. Kunhardt, and she and Son Philip, who is an assistant managing editor of LIFE, spent years writing the text and winnowing out photographs. The result is a book of lively prose and telling pictures that historians will respect and journalists...
Stephen J. Bergman '66, of Leverett House and Hudson, N.Y., Jonathan D. Culler '66, of Kirkland House and Hamden, Conn., Charles W. Filson '66, of Adams House and Springfield, Ill., William P. Frerking '66, of Quincy House and St. Louis...
...shipbuilding, aircraft and aerospace, metals, machinery and tools. In many cities, there is also a growing scarcity of teachers, nurses, social-welfare workers and even typists. Labor pirating by firms has broken out in the Midwest as a result of shortages of ironworkers, carpenters and cement masons. Contractors in Springfield, 111., are so short of bricklayers that they have enticed 15 Irish craftsmen to immigrate to the U.S., are clamoring for 40 more. Older people find it easier to get jobs because of the pinch: Des Moines Contractor Don B. Betts recently hired an 83-year-old carpenter...
...Corris should take the breaststroke against Army's John Landgraf, who will have to fight Bruce Fowler for second. The dive, though John Friedman looked against Springfield, is an unknown quantity...
Sophomore Pete Adams took the lead from a tired Hayes in the 500 after 100 yards and from then on it was clear sailing. Hayes, swimming with only 15 minutes' rest held off a Springfield challenge and sprinted the last 50 yards to complete Harvard's second sweep of the night...