Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Fonsa A. Lambert, famed football rule-maker and official; of a bullet fired by his 17-year-old son when Dr. Lambert, intoxicated, turned from choking his wife to attack the boy; in Columbus, Ohio...
Midwest. Ohio State's two games with Purdue this year have been the most exciting of the Big Ten season. In the first, an Ohio State player committed a foul which seemed to Purdue's wiry, black-haired Coach Ward ("Piggy") Lambert so dastardly that he rushed out on the floor to protest. Purdue got two free shots but Ohio State got one for Coach Lambert's indiscretion. Purdue's two throws tied the score; Ohio's broke the tie and won the game. Last week there was talk of "severing relations" between Purdue...
...Coach Lambert, so excitable that he frequently feeds himself five sticks of chewing gum at once, has been at Purdue since 1916; in the last seven years Purdue has won or tied for four championships, never been below second place till this year. This may make Piggy Lambert the ablest coach in the Midwest; if not, the ablest is probably Dr. Walter E. ("Doc") Meanwell of Wisconsin, a stocky, irascible theorist who never played basketball. He now directs practice from a tall perambulator which assistant managers push around the floor. His teams, more than usually adept at blocking and feint...
...Brooklyn, New York, Morton A. Mergentheim, Jr. '33 of Winnetka, Illinois, Albert Merriman Jr. '33 of Gallipolis, Ohio, Eugene W. Merry '34 of New York City, Leon Merz, Jr. '34 of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, Rowland L. Mindlin '33 of New York City, John U. Monro '34 of Andover. Lambert Murphy '35 of Upper Montelsin. New Jersey...
...Last week Wall Street recalled that Gerard Barnes Lambert, merchandising brains of Lambert Co. ("Listerine"), became president of Gillette Safety Razor Co. year and a half ago at no salary but with the agreement that if he should push earnings back to $5 a share he would receive a bonus of 20,000 shares of Gillette stock: if he jacks earnings up to $6 he will receive another 20,000 shares...