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...second important performance for the 100-piece ensemble will be held at Springfield, Feb. 22. The Band immediately follows the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra at Community Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio...
Coach Hal Ulen, naturally disappointed to lose Pratt, nevertheless foresaw a good performance against the Indians. Pratt took third in the 60-yard freestyle against Springfield in the first varsity meet last month...
...office in Springfield, Ill. announced that Adlai Stevenson, "for his own enlightenment," will make an early-spring trip to India, Japan "and probably Korea, since he'll be that close." The visit will be made "as a private citizen." The Navy posted its list of reserve lieutenant commanders who are eligible for promotion. Among those who may get to add the new half-stripe: Veep-elect Richard Nixon, Columnist Walter Winchell, former Tennis Champ Helen Jacobs, and Pennsylvania's Congressman James G. Fulton...
...never could get enough." Tompkins recalls now. "At night I'd go out in the pasture to ride. I did that for four years." At 19, Tompkins rode his first wild bull ("They're not as squirmy as horses"), and entered his first rodeo in Springfield, Mass. Then an eight-second ride at Madison Square Garden earned him $310, and Tompkins decided that the wild & woolly sport of bull riding was an easy way to make money. Within a year, Tompkins was the best in the world, won bull-riding championships three years running...
...life imprisonment in 1948 (TIME, July 12, 1948) for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin (sample: "I hope that Europe will demand the life of one Jew for every European who dies in the present war"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield...