Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After spending four months trying to break into journalism in Manhattan, Wolfe landed a $55-a-week reporter's job on the Springfield (Mass.) Union, moved on to the Washington Post, then went to work for the Trib...
Three generations of Akers' forebears were Methodist ministers; he was a preacher only at heart. After his stint on the Post-Dispatch, he became a political reporter in Springfield, later moved up to Chicago for the A. P. during gang-war days. In 1937, Akers took a fling at politics himself and wound up as an assistant to Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. But he soon beat a hasty retreat. "Anybody who leaves the newspaper business for a political job," he says now, "is kind of silly...
Died. Robert Watson, 77, actor, best known as the screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood...
Steele, Benjamin, and Clive Kileff should have little trouble winning for Harvard in the early rounds, but Peckham may have his problems. He plays Springfield's Tom Maher in a preliminary round at 9 a.m., and then faces Yale's tough number two player, Mike Brooks. Together with the doubles, Peckham will play four or five matches today...
...Boston NAACP, citing a precedent in Spring-field, this week filed a suit to force the School Committee to end de facto segregation. But the Springfield case is under appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court does not appear likely to rule racial imbalance by itself unconstitutional. Furthermore, obtaining a court order takes invaluable time...