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...afraid of them), primed as he was with images of oom-pah-pah bands, clinking beer steins and Wagnerian sopranos of ample girth. It happened that Ted's father was co-owner of the Kalmbach and Geisel Brewery (later, and prudently, changed to the Liberty Brewing Company) in Springfield, Mass., and that his mother's measurements were an imposing six ft. and 200 lb. Further, the family names could have come from any ethnic vaudeville sketch of the period: Schmaelzle and Geisel on his father's side, Greim and Seuss on his mother...
...summer of 1925, between college graduation and graduate courses at Oxford University that fall, Ted subbed for the vacationing writer of the On the Firing Line column for the Springfield Union. His job was to cull items from other papers and put a spin on them. He answered the household-hint question, "How can chewing gum be removed from a carpet?" with this: "Don't take chances, is our advice. A new package will only set you back a nickel...
...nation's drug supply, including importation. The article should have emphasized that the Clinton Administration, as well as the Bush Administration, was unable to demonstrate that importation could be done safely and would achieve significant savings. Presumably, the dangers explain why illegal importation schemes, such as one in Springfield, Mass., often require users to sign a liability waiver--another fact TIME omitted...
...moderator. Weld seemed to think he could win on charm; Kerry proved to be extremely deft about how he took his affable opponent down because anything too personal, too nasty could easily backfire. At one point Weld challenged Kerry for coddling criminals by producing the mother of a slain Springfield cop and asking him to "tell her why the life of the man who murdered her son is worth more than the life of a police officer...
...only alternative to Bush-style elitism is classic populism, I'll take it. For millions of Americans who lack jobs, health care, homes and a rosy future, populist issues are more important than the risk of terrorism. JON KOPPENHOEFER Springfield, Ohio...