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Article: Jim Thorpe remembered as one of a kind athlete.
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- March 1, 2000
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PRAGUE, Okla.
He was "quiet, stoic, truthful," could speak the language of his Sac and Fox tribe and took on every kind of Depression-era job he could get, from digging ditches to casting Indian actors for movie parts in order to support his family, Jim Thorpe's daughter Grace says. But mainly she wants him to be remembered as the greatest athlete that ever lived.
The United States Olympic Committee wants to ensure Jim Thorpe's name is not forgotten either, although he died in 1953.
"The greatest athlete of the century," USOC executive director Dick Schultz was reported to say of Thorpe following the unveiling of a bust of the track and field ...
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