Word: sores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reluctant Donation. Had it not been for a sore throat, Green Bay might still be just the paper napkin capital of the U.S. In 1918, Earl Louis Lambeau, a tousleheaded Notre Dame fullback and a disciple of Knute Rockne, came home to Green Bay to have his tonsils removed, stayed on as a $250-a-month shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Co. "Curly" Lambeau liked his job, but he still pined to play football. Within the year, he scraped up $500 to start a professional team. By naming his motley squad the Packers, Curly persuaded his reluctant employers...
Both Ed Hamlin and Bill Crain have been bothered with injuries that kept them from competing in yesterday's meet. Crain's sore knee has kept him out of action since the end of the cross country season and Hamlin's pulled leg muscle could slow him down against Army...
...came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around the floor on his knees, as if searching for a lost trail. To an upstate Tribune correspondent whose copy stood in sore need of punctuation, Walker sent a full page of commas. His ways were not without their effect...
Portugal. Lajes Field in the Azores, a valuable Air Force refueling base for transatlantic flights, may be lost to the U.S. when the U.S. -Portuguese agreement expires at year's end. Reason: the Portuguese are sore because the U.S. has failed to back their efforts to hold onto their colonies...
Hamlin was an uncertain element right up until the starting gun, since he had been unable to practice all week because of a sore knee. But injury and all, the 6 ft., 2 in. senior ran the greatest race of his career and set a new course record with a blistering 24:17 time. The effort left Yale's favored Bobby Mack 11 seconds and 70 yards behind at the finish...