Word: knute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories carried by the press on the death of Knute Rockne I liked best the two opening paragraphs of the story by William Ritt, Central Press Sports Editor. Perhaps TIME would care to print them...
...Honored. Knute Kenneth Rockne, Notre Dame University's famed Norwegian-born football coach killed last fortnight in an airplane crash (TIME, April 6); by King Haakon VII of Norway, who sent Olaf Bernts, Norwegian consul in Chicago as his personal representative at the Rockne funeral in South Bend, Ind., and who made known that he would confer posthumous Norwegian knighthood upon Mr. Rockne within six months...
Some 1,400 mourners gathered in Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus, where six years ago Knute Rockne was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. They heard Rev. Charles Leo O'Donnell, president of Notre Dame University, say: "This is not death but immortality." The Rockne children (Knute Jr., William, John and Mary Jean) were there and many an oldtime Notre Dame footballer. Pallbearers were members of Rockne's last team: Tom Conley, Tom Yarr, Frank Carideo, Marchmont Schwartz, Marty Brill, Larry Mullins. Outside the church waited mourning thousands, who followed the cortege to Highland Cemetery...
...suddenly too near the ground and jerked his controls too sharply, tearing off the wing. . . . A propeller blade snapped. . . . Those theories and many others were heard last week. But there was no final answer to the question: What caused the Transcontinental & Western Air plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric...
...Knute Kenneth Rockne, football coach at Notre Dame, was made sales promotion manager of Studebaker Corp...