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Once Curly Lambeau cajoled a fan into selling his cream-colored Marmon roadster (for $1,500) to bail the team out of hock; in repayment, Lambeau allowed his benefactor to play one minute of one Packer game. Another year, a spectator tumbled from the Packer grandstand, sued, won a $5,000 verdict, and forced the team into receivership; Green Bay businessmen chipped in $15,000 to save the franchise. Again, in 1949, after two miserable seasons (Lambeau's last as coach), the Packers floundered financially...
...soaked Du Quoin, Ill., State Fair grounds, hawkers hawked everything from fake jewelry to trusses and early American furniture. Girlie shows fringed the noisy midway. Prize hogs grunted, fat rabbits panted, chicken legs sputtered in deep fat. But most of the 37,718 fans jammed inside the gaily canopied grandstand and the adjacent bleachers had little use for such frippery. Their attention was focused on a burnished clay race track before them, where 15 sleek standardbreds were warming up for the start of trotting's annual classic-the $116,612 Hambletonian...
...strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand-and a railroad crossing where a train can mash risk-takers...
...Washington press corps has long since learned that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara regards reporters somewhat as a general looks on junior officers: they have a job to do, and they must have access to the top brass-but only through channels. Last fortnight, when McNamara marched into a grandstand to watch some Army war games at Wedgefield, S.C., reporters were forbidden to follow-and like good soldiers they obeyed...
Continuing, Brown taunted Nixon for having White House ambitions. "The top man for the opposition," he said, "is letting quite a few bounce off his glove. His problem is he doesn't know the ballpark. He has his mind and his eye on a grandstand about 3,000 miles east of here. And he's finding out you make a lot of errors when you try to play two games at once. He wants the people of California to turn Sacramento into a private bullpen so that he can start warming up for a second chance in another...