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...Could've Done Worse. Robin Roberts began the rounding-off process early. By the time he was seven he was nourishing a well-developed dislike for his allotted chores on the Roberts farm near Springfield, Ill.; everything came second to learning how to play games-basketball, baseball, anything at all. "He never had a ball out of his hand," his mother Sarah Roberts remembers. "Ah well," says his proud Welsh father Tom. "He could've done a lot worse...
Will to Win. On the way to bigger things, Robin stopped off at Springfield and Lanphier High Schools, where he pitched and played third, was a competent end on the football team and a promising shotputter. When he went to Michigan State in the fall of 1944, he was good enough to earn a basketball scholarship the next year. (He majored in physical education, graduated in 1948 with a B.S. degree...
...biggest prize the Russians got, said McClellan, was machine tools, a basic requirement for war as well as peacetime production. Ralph Baldenhofer, who was the Business and Defense Services Administration's machine-tool expert in 1955 and is now executive vice president of the Thompson Grinder Co. of Springfield, Ohio, testified that he protested "strongly" against letting the Russians buy such machines, but was repeatedly overruled. Said Toolman Baldenhofer: "It would be much better to give them the planes, even the guided missiles. These things will come back to us once. But the Soviet bloc will be making...
Died. Mary Herndon Ralston, 99, last survivor of nine children born to William Henry Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's longtime (21 years) law partner and biographer (Life of Lincoln); in Springfield, Ill. The Lincoln Herndon knew was an odd, thoughtful man ("the loveliest since Christ"), whose wife's temper was a town scandal and who brought his children to the law office where they "bent the points of all the pens, overturned inkstands, threw the pencils into the spittoon...
...successful? Says Ralph D. Foster, mastermind of Springfield's hillbilly enterprises: "There are more country people in America than any other kind of people. Most city people were from the country and are still sentimentally attached...