1. Robert Halperin is best known professionally as co-founder of Lands' End, and chairman of Chicago's Commercial Light Company, founded by his father.
22 Facts About Robert Halperin
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Robert Halperin had formerly been a college and National Football League football quarterback for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Robert Halperin lived in the Near North Side of Chicago, and Palm Springs, California.
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Robert Halperin began his athletic endeavors as player and Captain of Chicago's Oak Park High School football team.
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In college, Robert Halperin began playing football for Notre Dame, as a quarterback under legendary coach Knute Rockne, and then played for the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 1932.
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Robert Halperin later coached football at St Patrick High School.
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Robert Halperin was one of Chicago`s most decorated sailors in World War II.
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Robert Halperin joined the United States Navy on March 19,1942, at the advanced age of 34 as a seaman, ultimately rising to the level of lieutenant commander and then commander.
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Robert Halperin saw action in Sicily, Italy, Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific.
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Robert Halperin was decorated for gallantry with the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, and two Bronze Stars, as well as the Yun Hui Clouded Banner, the highest honor of the Nationalist Chinese government.
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Robert Halperin was commanding officer of US Naval Unit Six, from December 1944 to September 1945, in secret guerrilla action against the Japanese behind enemy lines in Fukien Province, China.
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Robert Halperin was located in Chongqing, Kunming, Camp 6, Hua'an, Zhangzhou, Gulangyu, and Shanghai.
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Robert Halperin, sailed for the Chicago Yacht Club and the Southern Lake Michigan Fleet.
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Robert Halperin won the North American Star Championship in 1959.
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Robert Halperin won a bronze medal for the United States in the Star class at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Bay of Naples in Italy, at the age of 52, together with William Parks.
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At the World Championships, the names of the crew whose yacht has the best total score are engraved on the Buck Robert Halperin Trophy, named after him.
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Robert Halperin was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Robert Halperin became the company's President in 1959, and chairman in the 1960s.
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Robert Halperin was involved in projects at key Chicago landmarks, including the John Hancock Center, O'Hare International Airport, and Wrigley Field.
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Robert Halperin helped start the company Lands' End in the Spring of 1963, with fellow sailor and Pan-American gold medal pardner Richard Stearns, Halperin's close friend Gary Comer, and two of Stearns' employees.
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Robert Halperin died May 8,1985, at Eisenhower Hospital, in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 77.
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Robert Halperin's body is at rest at Arlington National Cemetery with that of his wife.