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...Indians with interpretive dance. She only captivates a beskinned and unbathed French trapper, with whom she has seven children. The failing local college - is finally abandoned after a bear kills a student, and the town's first Norwegian is a Union Army deserter whose descendants, the Sons of Knute, hold a yearly contest, starting on Groundhog Day, where you bet on the day and hour a 1949 Ford will sink through the ice and into the lake. "Left to our own devices," writes Keillor, "we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes...
Given the confusion and the size of the mobs, it is astonishing that 80% got through within hours. Felix Frankfurter got through. Knute Rockne's health, mind and abilities were found to be acceptable. Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Sol Hurok, Samuel Goldwyn and Elia Kazan were examined at Ellis Island, as were Louis Koch, the mayor's father, and Immaculata Giordano, Governor Mario Cuomo's mother...
...Catholic, and Irish followers are not devoid of faith. When Steve Oracko made a big kick in the '40s and an assistant coach, spotting from inside the Scoreboard, shouted joyously, "God bless you, Oracko!," weren't the fans below certain that they had heard the voice of Knute Rockne? Lately they are remembering that both Rockne and Ara Parseghian were Protestants...
...Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers and the Stiehm Rollers, were regularly undefeated against the likes of Notre Dame. During the 1920s, Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen lost to the Cornhuskers twice. Nebraska employed legendary Coaches Fielding Yost before Michigan and D.X. Bible before Texas...
...both predictable and improbable (with only a few seconds left to play, the coach calls for a hand-off in his own end zone in monsoon mud), or that the heroine is called upon to utter lines that Gale Page would have found too naive to speak in Knute Rockne -All American...