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...whole world loves a lover -which probably accounts for the fact that people are forever doing favors for Paul ("Golden Boy") Hornung, 29. Paul is properly grateful. In his autobiography, Football and the Single Man (Doubleday; $4.95), the ex-Notre Dame star and veteran Green Bay Packers halfback does his best to repay everybody who, as he puts it, "contributed to making Paul Hornung, like Wyatt Earp, a legend in his own time...
Then there is the "friendly, friendly" college recruiter who offered him 1) $10,000 in cash, 2) a new car, and 3) not one but two free scholarships (the other was for the girl of his choice) to play ball at some place other than Notre Dame. Roman Catholic Hornung had to refuse: "If I hadn't, there wouldn't be a priest in Louisville who would talk to me." South Bend, as it turned out, wasn't such a bad place after all. Paul drove a car on campus in violation of the rules...
Paree & the Black Books. Thanks to his friends, Hornung's whole life has been one long weekend, and "every day is Derby Day." While he was still a junior at Notre Dame, a "bachelor millionaire" named Abe Samuels introduced Paul to the chorus line at Chicago's Chez Paree. After he turned pro, a pinball-machine operator named Barney Shapiro staked him to a Las Vegas trip and handled his weekly bets (up to $300) on pro football games. When Paul was suspended in 1963 for gambling, Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts made a speech in his behalf...
Green Bay is the home of the Green Bay Packers, heavy preseason favorites to win their ninth National Football League championship. It is the home, too, of Paul ("Golden Boy") Hornung, 28, who set an N.F.L. record in 1960 by scoring 176 points-86 of them with his toe. But this year the gold has turned to brass. The first time the Packers played the Baltimore Colts, Hornung missed an extra point and Green Bay lost, 21-20. Next time he missed five field goals in a row and the Packers lost again, 24-21. Two weeks ago he tried...
Last week old Ben kicked a field goal and four extra points as the Chargers beat Oakland, 31-17, then flew off to Green Bay to moonlight as a doctor for Hornung's ailing...