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After two weeks of inactivity, the varsity basketball team resumes competition when it meets Springfield College at 8 p.m. Saturday in the I.A.B. The Crimson, which has suffered three consecutive defeats in Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League games, will be aiming for an even 5-5 won and-lost record...
...Springfield has won several more games than it has lost, but mainly because of the weak competition it has met in the local Massachusetts colleges. The Gymnast five is a fast-breaking, medium-height team, which uses a shifting man-to-man defense...
...varsity swimmers have won their first three meets so far this season, defeating M.I.T., Springfield, and Penn...
...Nevertheless, in its 133 years, the state has had some really good governors. One was John Peter Altgeld, "the eagle forgotten." One was Henry Horner, a great Depression governor. And Illinois has a good governor now: Adlai* Ewing Stevenson, a political amateur turned pro. In his three years in Springfield, Stevenson...
...months he has been in office, he has traveled, within the state, an estimated 40,000 miles. But he does most of his work in the faded, 95-year-old governor's mansion, as magniloquent and dated as an 1845 oration, at the edge of downtown Springfield. (Since the divorce, the handsome, eleven-room frame house on Stevenson's 70-acre farm at Libertyville has been rented. Its present tenant: Marshall Field Jr., editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, and an old friend.) In the 28-room, brick-and-stone governor's mansion, Stevenson sleeps...