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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the War, the history of professional football has been in a sense the history of the Green Bay Packers. Organized in 1919. the Packers are the oldest team in the National League. Coach of the Packers since 1919 has been Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, a Green Bay boy who played at Notre Dame in Knute Rockne's first year as head coach. He organized the team, got a local packing company to supply uniforms. Since 1921, when they bought a franchise in the National League, the Packers have not only made the little dairy town of Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pay Checks and Packers | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: $10,000 Orchid | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever been found before or since. The most valuable orchid in the world, it was sold by Lager & Hurrell for $10,000 to a European commercial establishment which in turn sold it to Baron Firmen Lambeau of Belgium. Lager & Hurrell promptly made it a house rule never to sell an orchid plant until the partners had a chance to see what the flowers were going to be like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: $10,000 Orchid | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

John Lager found the world's rarest orchid in 1908. Of a batch of Cattleya Gigas he had shipped from South America, one astonishingly bloomed Albino. He sold it, the only one ever found, to Baron Firmen Lambeau of Belgium for $10,000. Lambeau managed to propagate it but it is still the world's rarest known orchid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: March Flowers | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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