The following info is courtesy of Lynne Raymond, senior searcher in Mann
Library's Collections and Development.  That Pierre article is looking more and
more like the stuff of Lynah mythology, but I'll also take a look into it a bit
further.  (Ref=reference department, not referee)
 
> RE:
> the Pierre thing.  There is a online database called Magazine index that
> indexes Sports Illustrated.  Because Ref was not busy and She was bored,
> she searched it briefly for me.  I think that you will find that there
> is no such article.  However, you can keep searching if you like.  We
> found one article that came similiar in topic, and I discovered that you
> should have them search the subject area of sports-officiating:
> personalities as on e of the things to try.  That was listed as one of
> the ways to find it.  This article is about a hockey player turned ref
> in the Nov. 30, 1987 issue titled Whistling a new tune.  That was the
> only one even close that we found.  Take a look and good luck.  Any
> questions?
>
 
 
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