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Challenge from Belgium. Out of habit the Army spurned the chance to tap private industry for new ideas, turned instead to its arsenal at Springfield, Mass., which developed such trusty performers as the bolt-action Model 1903 of World War I and the M 1 Garand of World...
...After conducting a series of experiments with college trackmen, Springfield College (Mass.) physiologists reported that most pre-race warmups are practically useless. Setting-up exercises and a variety of massage techniques made no noticeable differences in the performances of Springfield runners. Nor could the scientists find any evidence that warming up reduces the number of athletic injuries. Their deadpan conclusion: "No one will question the beneficial effect of warming up when limbs may be almost numb from cold, but there is a suspicion that the practice of warming up is frequently overdone...
Thus the Illinois State Register (Springfield), taking Lincoln to task for his "assumed clownishness," charged that his "buffoonery convinces the mind of no man, and is utterly lost on the majority of his audience." The Chicago Times, one of his angriest foes, sneered that "he cannot speak five grammatical sentences in succession." One of Lincoln's greatest speeches, the second inaugural ("with malice toward none") was dismissed by the Times as "slipshod" and "puerile...
...youth in Springfield, he sold subr scriptions for the weekly Sangamo Journal, covered the state legislature for the same paper when he was a state representative. He carried his habit of writing letters-to-the-editor right into the White, House. For about a year before his inauguration he secretly owned a newspaper, the German-language Illinois Staats-Anzeiger at Springfield. The contract Lincoln drew up to buy the paper left it in the hands of Editor Theodore Canisius but entitled Lincoln to take over its type and press any time the paper failed to espouse the Republican line...
WRESTLING: December 14, Dartmouth; December 19, M.I.T.; January 12, Cornell; February 2, at Amherst; February 9, at Columbia; February 16, Pennsylvania; February 20, Springfield; February 23, Princeton; March 1, at Brown; March 9, at Yale; March 15 through 16, Eastern Intercollegiates at Penn State...