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...worry is that the whole climate of Europe will change," says Adrian Luckman, senior lecturer in geography at the University of Wales, Swansea. "We in the U.K. are on the same latitude as Alaska. The reason we can live here is the Gulf Stream...
Lions coach Bob Shoop finally settled the quarterback controversy by picking sophomore Craig Hormann over co-captain Joe Winters. Sadly, neither was named Sid Luckman, because that’s what it would have taken to make the offense even remotely respectable...
When players were players and even agents were agents, the Bears had Red Grange and Cash & Carry Pyle. Other names are like trumpets sounding. Bronko Nagurski. Bulldog Turner. George McAfee. Sid Luckman. (If you'll pardon a sentimental addition, Willie Galimore. He even sounded like running.) Later: Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus. People say the Bears are 22 seasons between championships, but 1963 was so momentary and illusory that it seemed more of a flashback than a turnaround, a memory of glory in the midst of a 40-year desperation that, almost no matter what happens in New Orleans this...
DIED. CHARLES LUCKMAN, 89, entrepreneur and architect who designed Madison Square Garden and Florida's Kennedy Space Center; in Los Angeles. Trained in architecture, Luckman first made his name (and the cover of TIME) selling soap as a sales manager at Pepsodent, and then returned to his first love after commissioning Lever House, one of Manhattan's first glass skyscrapers. In the late 1960s, he inadvertently fueled a national campaign for historic preservation with his design for the Garden, a monstrosity that replaced McKim, Mead and White's steel and glass-canopied gem, Penn Station...
DIED. SID LUCKMAN, 81, Chicago Bears Hall of Fame quarterback with a mind as potent as his arm; in North Miami Beach. After joining the Bears in 1939, Luckman perfected the T-formation offense, memorizing 350 plays in the team's repertoire and changing the way the game was played for the next decade. He led an All Star-packed lineup, dubbed the Monsters of the Midway, to four NFL championships in seven years, beginning with a 73-0 rout of the Washington Redskins in the 1940 title game...