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Ogden Corp.'s Ralph Ablon wanted to expand into housing construction. He simply phoned Los Angeles Architect Charles Luckman, whom he had never met, and proposed a discussion. Luckman flew to New York. In just two hours over lunch at Manhattan's 21 Club, where myriad American mergers are made, Luckman agreed to join Ogden in exchange for common stock...
...strategist, he perfected the T-formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread ends, was the first coach to employ movies for spotting mistakes and plotting plays. A superb judge of talent, he gave the game some of its brightest stars: Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Gale Sayers. A tightfisted businessman, he was known to wrestle fans for the ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained that Halas provided only two bars of shower soap for 36 men. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk," Halas...
Timeless Place. Last week, after three months of round-the-clock construction, Cooke's Forum opened on schedule. Despite the breakneck speed with which it went up, the colonnaded, Roman-style structure, designed by Los Angeles-based Charles Luckman Associates, is distinguished by its spectator-pleasing efficiency. For one thing, the arena has gone all out for color coding. On their arrival for the opening hockey game between the Kings and the Philadelphia Flyers, fans holding yellow tickets, for example, found that they parked their cars in a yellow-designated lot. They entered the arena at a yellow gate...
Fast Exit. "To do what we did on the Forum," adds Architect Luckman, "would have been impossible in New York." He should know, since he is also the architect for New York's new Madison Square Garden Sports and Entertainment Center, part of a $150 million construction project that has presented problems of both space and timing. To make room for the new Madison Square Garden, the fourth in the city's history, as well as an adjacent 29-story office building, the superstructure of cavernous Pennsylvania Station had to be demolished and all its facilities moved underground...
Baird feels intensely alone these days. He has few active supporters now--two young New Yorkers, Mike Luckman and Billie Blair, and a couple BU students. His wife and four children have had to stay behind in New York, and he is deeply in debt and has no money. But more important, until his trial last week, he has been going unnoticed...