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...turning Jamison's dream into reality fell to the company's executive director, Sharon Luckman, who had to find $300,000 to cover the cost of the trip. Initial overtures to potential American underwriters got nowhere. Nor were funds forthcoming in South Africa, because, says Luckman, it is deemed "politically incorrect to raise money for foreigners to come here when so little was going to local arts groups." The project was about to be abandoned when the J.P. Morgan Bank, based in New York City, agreed to sponsor the tour to showcase its start-up this year of a Johannesburg...
...drawing sellout crowds five days after his last college game. Tightfisted (at first he collected the tickets himself) and tough-minded (he ran up a 73-0 victory to take the 1940 league title from the Washington Redskins), "Papa Bear" Halas developed an ongoing phalanx of stars including Sid Luckman, Johnny Lujack and Gale Sayers. In his 40-year career as head coach, he earned the N.F.L. record for most victories, with 320 regular-season winning games, and led his team to six of its eight championship titles. "I play to win," he once remarked. "I shall always play...
Foreign entries are down this year, probably because most teams, looking ahead to the Olympics, are conserving their resources. Kingston College at Oxford has an entry in the championship fours and Charles Luckman from Perth. Australia, home of the America's Cup, is competing in the lightweight singles. Each year as a reward for the season, Canada sends its national team to the Head and its boats should be contending throughout...
...Charles Luckman, Lever Bros.' president from 1946 to 1950, and an architect, felt strongly that the era needed an architectural expression. He commissioned Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to find it for Lever's new headquarters on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The inspiration for Bunshaft, who later built the glass-walled PepsiCo, Inc., building in New York City and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., was the International Style. It was the architecture of functionalism that had originated in Europe before World War II and had been introduced...
HOLY CROSS 73, BROWN 0--The Bruins will score during their first drive, but the touchdown will be called back because of a holding penalty. And Bruno will never see the end zone again. This one's for you, Sid Luckman...