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Article: HE NEVER SLEPT HERE : A SLEEPY PENNSYLVANIA TOWN HE DIDN'T KNOW IS JIM THORPE'S FINAL HOME.(SPORTS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- July 6, 1996
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Byline: Frank Fitzpatrick Philadelphia Inquirer
In this Olympic summer, the idle old men who congregate on the benches at the foot of Broadway Street find themselves musing about the sad fate of Jim Thorpe, and about the curious way their town came to bear the name of the great Indian athlete.
If booming Atlanta is a symbol of the new money-driven Olympics, then this musty old Pennsylvania railroad town, a charming but spiritually sagging community, remains in a way a reflection of its simpler past.
At a time when multimillionaire athletes enrich themselves with Olympic glory, here is a town named for a man who lost two gold medals because he'd ...