Word: kolowich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burgeoning world of amateur industrial ball-there are bush-league teams of no mean ability from Florida shipyards to Massachusetts textile mills and West Coast aircraft plants-the N.I.B.L. is the big time. Denver Chicago President George Kolowich may be a few years away from the world-beating team he wants, but last week showed that his expensive investment in amateur basketball is beginning...
Building a team as good as the Truckers in one season meant competing for talent with the five other fine N.I.B.L. teams* and bargaining against the moneymen of pro basketball as well. Kolowich hired former Notre Dame Footballer Jerry Groom to beat the drum and brought aggressive Johnny Dee from the University of Alabama to coach. Backed by the generous assets of DC Trucking's multimillion-dollar business, Groom and Dee peddled some convincing arguments in the fleshpots of college basketball...
Unappeased by this sop, Harvey looked around for somebody who could help him fight back at brother Roy. The man he found was George J. Kolowich, head of the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co., a banker who went to jail in 1933 for embezzlement, but who has since made a fortune in real estate and trucking. Last July Kolowich bought Harvey's 9% stock interest in Fruehauf, went to work to unseat Roy as president of the company...