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DIED. LOU GROZA, 76, all-star Cleveland Browns tackle and place kicker known during his 21-year career as "the Toe"; of an apparent heart attack; in Middleburgh Heights, Ohio. Groza played during an era in which the Browns dominated. His most memorable field goal, performed in black high-top shoes and with a straight-on kicking style rarely used today, was a 16-yd. boot with seconds left, to win the 1950 championship over the L.A. Rams. College football's top kicker each year takes home the Lou Groza Award...
...BROWN Along with Graham, Groza, Kosar and the whole Dawg Pound, the NFL expands back to Cleveland...
...been a respected member of the league's Establishment. For another, the Browns have consistently had the highest TV ratings in the N.F.L. and one of the highest attendance figures. But most painful of all, Modell is taking with him a heritage built by Paul Brown, Marion Motley, Lou Groza and Jim Brown. "It's a dart to my heart," said Dante Lavelli, the Browns' Hall of Fame end who owns a furniture store in suburban Rocky River...
...America Football Conference disbanded, the leftover 49ers and Browns were derisively absorbed into the N.F.L. "They don't even have a football," remarked first commissioner Elmer Layden. Before Cleveland's big-league debut against the champion Philadelphia Eagles, Brown gathered his rinky-dinks all around -- players with names like Groza, Motley and Graham -- and delivered a pep talk of two sentences. Referring to the star of both the Eagles and the league, he said dryly, "Just think. Tonight you're going to get to touch Steve Van Buren...
...seventh blockbuster, Sidney Sheldon has a great time inventing grisly ways of killing his characters. A Rumanian rebel, Marin Groza, has himself beaten by prostitutes as penance for sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked...