Word: nebraskan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sorensen's remarks, quoted in your article about another talented Nebraska performer, remind me of the Nebraskan who died after moving to California. They brought his body to Lincoln for burial and one of his old lady friends, taking a last look at him in the casket, was heard to say: "Doesn't he look just fine! It sure did him a lot of good to move to California...
...Nebraskan Politesse. Some of his seeming ad libs come from a computerlike retrieval system. He has apparently never forgotten a joke, constantly spins off variations on old ones. Once, when he and Exercise Expert Debbie Drake stretched out on mats for a demonstration, he asked: "Would you like to leave a call?" Last month, five years later, he was still using the same line when Singer Roger Miller was doping off during a discussion. Similarly, Carson's L.B.J. inaugural gag "As I was telling my bellboy, Dean Burch," was transformed a month later, during a CBS upheaval, into...
...head Philadelphia's police force before being asked to New York by Lindsay. Leary has displayed not only the qualities of an efficient administrator but also a badly needed talent for improving police relations with Negroes and Puerto Ricans. » Corporation Counsel J. Lee Rankin, 59, a Nebraskan who served as U.S. Solicitor General in the Eisenhower Administration and later as chief counsel of the Warren commission. » Budget Director Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, 43, holder of a Harvard master's degree in public administration, who served as chief examiner for housing programs in the Federal Budget...
...Devaney, as every Nebraskan knows, rhymes with uncanny. Bob walked out on a new five-year contract at Wyoming to take the Nebraska job, announced on his arrival in Lincoln: "I don't expect to win enough games to be put on N.C.A.A. probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." Devaney proceeded to win 28 out of his first 33-and improve from there. Until last week the closest the Cornhuskers had come to losing this fall was a 16-14 victory over No. 8-ranked Missouri. They had walloped Texas Christian...
...gumshoes are dogging Devaney's footsteps, he is leading them a merry chase. He is the most peripatetic recruiter in Nebraska's history. No fewer than 68 of the 109 athletes who tried out for the team last spring were non-Nebras-kans. The Huskers do have Nebraskan Bob Churchich playing quarterback, but he has to alternate with Chicago's Fred Duda. Another Chicagoan, 240-lb. Tackle Walt Barnes, is the bulwark of a defense that so far has limited its opponents to 195 yds. per game. Cleveland's Frank Solich may be the smallest fullback...