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...wages of sin may be small, but there are always exceptions to prove the rule. When he was suspended indefinitely from the National Football League last spring for betting on his own games, the Green Bay Packers' Golden Boy Paul Hornung automatically lost his fat $25,000 salary. So what happened to the tarnished hero? While his mates knock heads on the field this fall, Hornung will be riding high on the banquet circuit, raking in money from endorsements and jamming radio and TV programs. Barring an upset stomach or laryngitis, he should make more than $40,000 this...
People are endlessly wondering who will be the new Hemingway, the new Hornung, the new Premier of the Soviet Union. But no one yet has been courageous enough to confront the ultimate question: Who will be the new John Wayne...
...fine to me-all my friends," said Boston Celtics' Basketball Star Bob Cousy, 34, moved to tears by a crowd of 3,000 at a testimonial banquet in Worcester, Mass. Retiring for a coaching job at Boston College, the Cooze firmly numbered among his friends another athlete-Paul Hornung, 27, Green Bay halfback indefinitely suspended from the National Football League for betting on Packers games. Hornung-present at Cousy's insistence -shakily recalled his own furlough from sports. "Last week I had many long-distance calls. Some of them were not so nice. But one of the first...
...Green Bay Packers to win the N.F.L. championship. For that, Rozelle fined each of them $2,000. He clipped the Detroit club $4,000 for pooh-poohing the whole business. Then he threw the book at Detroit's tough Tackle Alex Karras, 27, and Green Bay Halfback Paul Hornung, 27, the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player in 1961. Karras, said Rozelle, had made "at least six significant bets" of $50 and $100 on N.F.L. games since 1958. Hornung, football's "Golden Boy" with an income of $50,000 in salary and testimonials...
Baseball may have shorter games and lower bases on balls next season, but it will never have Paul Hornung or Y. A. Tittle, or for that matter, Billy Grana...