Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plague. "The American people," cried Morse, in a sulphurous 1960 speech from the Senate floor, "need to be warned before it is too late about the threat which is arising as a result of the monopolistic practices of the Newhouse interests." That same year, when Newhouse bought into two Springfield, Mass, dailies, Sidney R. Cook, treasurer and board member, promptly called the interloper "a menace" and "a graveyard superintendent" who "goes around picking up the bones?preying on widows and split families." Added Cook: "I can tell you this. Newhouse will never get into Springfield." Newhouse has not since...
Whatever the merits of the bird man's case (at 73, he now is confined at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo.), Bird Man of Alcatraz is an impressive movie. Director John Frankenheimer makes graphic the crushing sterility and despair of prison existence, the way the pent-up longing for life and freedom fastens touchingly on tiny things. As an infant canary kicks and squirms its way out of its natal shell, the owner-inmate lights up a cigarette butt, as a proud father would a cigar...
...business could grow big without violating ethical standards. In 1931, after trying every thing from radio manufacturing to importing German shepherd dogs, they set up one of the nation's first mutual funds, and in the course of making investments for it acquired the struggling Stonehaven Hotel in Springfield, Mass. Impressed with the swiftness with which the Stonehaven's earnings responded to rigorous management, they bought more hotels and formed Sheraton Corp. (named after one of their first hotels, which had a costly electric sign that they did not want to discard...
...West Springfield, Mass., Storrowton Music Fair: George Gobel in Bye Bye Birdie...
...After 8 months of fighting against our Republican proposals on Beacon Hill (the Massachusetts capitol) the Democratic Party at Springfield -- less than three weeks ago -- gave up the fight...