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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I Ross-Ade: Their Stories
  • Like being in jail
  • Mechanic or farmer?
  • A good spectator
  • Much of the time lonely
  • In the Big Arena
  • A different breed of cat
  • Chicago, here he came
  • Meanwhile, down on the farm
  • "Fables" and more
  • Plays and more plays
  • Made for the movies
  • Peace and War
  • At war with Purdue
  • Together at last
  • Walter Scholer
  • Ross-Ade
  • PART II Ross-Ade: Their Stadium
  • A time for reflectio
  • Out of the Joke Division
  • Events of great importance
  • Governor Leslie
  • Darkest memories
  • Maybe sports?
  • Fast growing seeds
  • Promising news, growing Depression
  • A time of change
  • Purdue Airport
  • Earhart at Purdue
  • The "Flying Laboratory"
  • Pride, sadness, mystery, hope
  • A new season of pride
  • Golf courses, parties, and war
  • The Hall of Music
  • Getting serious
  • Wartime!
  • "A multiplier of the power of men"
  • "Home is the Hoosier"
  • Hovde for Elliott
  • Gaining in value
  • The "Golden Girl" and "Purdue Pete"
  • "I am an American"
  • A hallowed centerpiece
  • The "PAT" era
  • Not your average Joe
  • Bermuda and "The Boilermaker"
  • An economic plus
  • And then some
  • References
  • Index

About the Author

Robert C. Kriebel is a retired editor of the Lafayette Journal and Courier where is was employed 40 years in a variety of writing, editing, and executive positions. He continues in retirement to contribute a Sunday column on local history, a column that was launched in 1977. Kriebel is the author of 4 books on Indiana biography, and one about the life and the work of American jazz banleader, Herman Woody

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