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...VIDEOLOGICAL. The man who has exercised the greatest influence on modern football is neither Vince Lombardi nor Don Shula. His name is Lee DeForrest, the inventor of the vacuum tube that, in turn, spawned television...
...following a long illness; in Portland, Ore. Raised in the prophetically named town of Winner, S. Dak., Leahy attended Notre Dame where he played on the undefeated 1929 national championship team. After various coaching jobs-including six years at Fordham, where he taught future Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi-Leahy returned to Notre Dame in 1941 and led the Irish to their first undefeated season since Rockne's days. Known as "The Master" because of his stern and demanding style, Leahy in eleven seasons compiled an 87-11-9 mark. He left South Bend in 1953 but returned...
...Ralph Lombardi, 49, arrived in Viet Nam in 1962 as a securities salesman, leaving behind a wife, a Thunderbird and a town house in Brooklyn Heights. "When I came here," he says, "I had high blood pressure and ulcers -after the first year, both problems had vanished." Lombardi never got around to selling stocks. Instead, he played piano in a Saigon hotel for 18 months at $900 a month: when the American presence was at its highest levels, a polished entertainer like Lombardi was very much in demand. Today he ekes out a meager living by teaching at the University...
Winning ways, iron discipline, devotion to excellence, a strong sense of religion and family, all this suggests another famous football coach. In fact, Don Shula has more than once been compared with Vince Lombardi, late mentor of the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. There are, as it happens, other traits the two men had in common: an incandescent temper and a penchant for chewing out miscreant players, often in front of their confederates. While Shula is every bit as consecrated as Lombardi was to the idea that "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing...
...Cambridge, incumbent Democratic State Representatives Thomas H.D. Mahoney, Michael J. Lombardi and John J. Toomey all easily won re-election, and State Senator Francis X. McCann disposed of long-time adversary David F. Wylie...