Word: glowworm
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Glowworm. Walter Wellesley ("I hate the name") Smith, 44, a balding, mournful-looking product of Green Bay, Wis., went to Notre Dame ('27), once placed last in a mile race, the only one he ever ran. After that he took up spectator sports. He broke in on the Milwaukee Sentinel, moved to the St. Louis Star (now the Star-Times) as a copyreader. "One day they fired the sports department," recalls Red, and he got his chance. His first assignment was night football practice at Washington University. Red wrote the story from the viewpoint of a glowworm outshone...