Word: punxsutawney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living. For him, it has always been "the greatest sport this country has had"; to play or to coach hard, winning football has been his object since boyhood. "I only got to play once before I went to college," he recalls. "It was on a home-town sandlot in Punxsutawney, Penn., against a mining team. I was in long enough to tackle a big 240-pounder before my father grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and pulled me off the field...
Through the Rye. In Youngstown, Ohio, Judge Frank P. Anzellotti dismissed a drunkenness charge against George Shirley when Shirley proved himself sober enough to spell the name of his home town, nearby Punxsutawney, Pa. In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the charge against Abdulla ben Brahim was reduced from drunken driving to reckless driving when Abdulla proved his sobriety by walking around the police station on his hands...
...20th Century-Fox). When Willie went marching off, the little town of Punxsutawney gave him a sendoff worthy of its first citizen to enlist in World War II. When Willie's troop train stopped in Punxsutawney one month later, the town gave him a welcome fit for a man on his way to war. But when the Army bogged him down at a nearby airfield while all his buddies went overseas, the neighbors began cutting him, his father wanted him out of sight, and even the dogs barked at him when he slunk through the streets...
...hits the stride of runaway farce. Within a wild four days, Willie flies the Atlantic twice, bails out of a B-17 over German-held France, joins the French underground, carries a top enemy secret to Eisenhower's headquarters and the Pentagon-and winds up back in Punxsutawney, suspected of desertion...