Word: elkhorn
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...Boston College group arrives, six guys and a girl who walked six miles to see the Pope. One, a freshman from Elkhorn, Nebraska, wants to avoid TV cameras. "What if my mother saw it? Sleeping in the streets, cup of coffee in my hand like some bum, and I'll be back to Elkhorn in no time...
Died. Philip Knight Wrigley, 82, chairman of the world's largest chewing gum company (1976 sales: $370 million) and owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Elkhorn, Wis. The only son of the founder of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Philip Wrigley became president of the family business at 31, and head of his father's baseball team in 1934. The Cubs introduced ladies' days and radio and TV coverage of games, but the team has gone 31 years without a pennant under Wrigley's somewhat eccentric proprietorship...
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...winter of 1884 T.R.'s wife Alice died in childbirth, and he headed west to the solace of the silent spaces of the North Dakota Territory. "Black care," he said, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." There T.R. ran the Maltese Cross and Elkhorn cattle ranches (see color pages), rode the range beneath springtime stars and winter snow-dust, got sworn in as a deputy sheriff by Sheriff "Hell-Roaring Bill" Jones, and generally gathered in the feel of what he called "the masterful, overbearing spirit of the West ... the possession of which is certainly...