Word: barker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played by the Barker...
...Barker...
...Good Earth. Puckish, pint-sized (5 ft. 5 in.) Jeno Paulucci, an Italian immigrant's son from the Minnesota iron range, started in the food business helping his mother sell home-canned pasta in her living room, later worked as a sidewalk vegetable barker and roaming grocery salesman. Just after World War II, he bought a Chinese food cannery in Duluth, and in 1947 began to turn out a spicy chow mein derived from recipes that he whipped up himself on his mother's stove. "It's not so bland as Chinese chow mein." he explains...
Mullin led all the way to win in 4:16.6, a fine time that could have been even faster if he had cut a few seconds off his 66.5 third quarter. Meehan and Hamlin ran second and fourth, on either side of Holy Cross co-captain Bud Barker, until the final 160 yards, when Hamlin unfurled a closing sprint that carried him into second, just ahead of Meehan...
Some challenge. Crusader Kevin Callahan held the lead against Meehan for three laps of the first leg, and then Meehan ran him into the ground, handing Kirkland a 25-yard edge. Kirkland increased the margin to 40 yards against Noering, and Hamlin and Mullin held their own against Barker and Ruchta...