Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-27

Lombard Finds
House Is Home
BY MORRIS SIEGEL

MISGUIDED MIsCREANT who became a latent
do-gooder made something of literary mark for herself
by compiling spicy dosser to support belief she held
that q house not a home.
OF course, she also made a few bucks too which was
the name Of the game There validity to her
claim spread nicely through 300 pages of book
which has not become classic although the title of Miss
p. Adlers efforts manages to live
Now 1t seems that Signor Vincent lombard occupied
In field completely unrelated to Miss Adlers has evidence
to the contrary lombard has discovered that house is
indeed home and in the of his family hearth
In Green Bay, Wis., 1t becomes livabe each year.
$500
FOR THE FIRST TIME in three seasons lombard will
not be engaged actively in the formae faced by the
Bears Of Chicago and the Giants of New Sunday His
Packers were not Issued their annual invitation to try
the NFL door prize.
They were the most unwilling party-poopers magi-
nabe but when the guest list for the event compiled
by Pete Rozee commissioner and chief Of protocol for
the event. the Bays found ineligible Their insgres-
sionS at earlier socias with the Bears disqualified them for
the biggest blowout Of ALL
But Lombardi's employers who number about 1900
thought the fault was not his at all and showed their ap
probation in the only way a coach understands They
ripped up his old contract which still had a couple Of
good seasons left and renewed his resdency Green Bay
for at least five more years.
LOMBARDI HAS BEEN at Green Bay five years but his
contracts including the last fveyear assignment total
Is years The $500 stockholders did than extend his
tenure they upped his pay again. which not unusual
Here in Washington recently witnessed the Redskins
handing out Is per cent boost to coach whose team
had won only three games. Since LombardiS Pack won
almost four times as many it is assumed his earnings
were hked accordingly.
lombard accepted the Packer assignment cautiously
native New Yorker accustomed to something besides
the limited refnemens of glaciers and bowling alleys
asked originally for only woyear guarantee He believed
he could do something with the Packers whose 1-1O1
record when he inherited them made them likely guinea
pigs for any experiment
In two years, lombard reckoned he would either
to New York elsewhere where the living figured to be
better than Green Bay.
BUT A STRANGE THING happened to lombard and
the Bays They got better and better and better They
three divisional titles and grabbed the whole business
twice lombard also found becoming difficult
to leave Green Bay each year.
The town almost mutnied when it learned the Giants
angling for replacement for Jim Lee Howell wanted
lombard the Howell lieutenant who was given command
Of his own at Green Bay Vince not available, they
said and Vince got stuck with the Packers Green
Bay joyfuly remained glued to him.
lombard has discovered everything outside of New
York isn't Bridgeport and has learned to like the pace
Green Bay. So has Mrs lombard reluctantly con-
vered to the general idea New York only good for
visiting
They like it out there and nobody, according tc
neghbors ever will have much luck trying to relocate
the Lombards The fast that Allie Sherman who
like lombard, served under Howell and who has done
well with the Giants helped the Lombaris discover the
pleasures of suburbia, Wisconsin STYLE
UNDER THE NEW contractural alliance Green Bay ha
pledged to vote the straight lombard ticket until 1869
Another title league championship undoubtedly will
clear the for another veyear pact before the
rent arrangement is fulfilled
Whether Vince remains there for the duration is UNI
practicable despite his avowed love for his new home
Certainly there is precedent for him to If the rgh
opportunity is created.
Bear Bryant, currently preparing Alabama for Sugar
Bowl assignment remains the classic example of football
bounty jumper. Bryant could be the original in
ton. He walked out l5year deal at Kentucky with
only three years of the arrangement completed.
At Texas AIM, where again found Bryant
vice he skipped 1oyear deal with
still to be carried out At Alabama he recently got anohe
long-term paper.
It would be necessary for the Bear TO live to be 49,
years old to fill out the unexpired portions of terms
Kentucky Texas AIM, and Maryland where even life
time" proposition too insecure for him.
But at Green Bay, lombard finally has found q hous
he enjoys calling home.