H. L. Hunt (left) in 1932, the year Lamar was born, and Lyda Hunt, in the ’40s. “I never heard a cross word between them,” said Lamar’s sister Caroline.

Lamar, aged five, reading in his bedroom at Mount Vernon, circa 1938.

Lamar (center) giving chase to brother Herbert (left), along with Buddy and Paula Rupe, in the Rupe’s backyard, early ’40s.

Lamar started scrapbooking before he was ten years old. In 1944, he began a new scrapbook on the D-Day Invasion.

While his brothers began early careers in business, Lamar spent his summers getting in shape for football season. One year, Bunker gave him a blocking sled for Christmas.

Lamar with teammate Tom Richey, at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. During his time at The Hill, Lamar became a football star, emulating the man he called his “idol,” Doak Walker, who wore number 37 for SMU.

Lamar’s entry in The Hill School Yearbook, The Dial, in 1951.

Lamar’s eye for composition was evident at an early age, as in this sketch of a minor-league ballpark he composed at The Hill.

He continued scrapbooking throughout his life. In a book devoted to Doak Walker, he carefully wrote on the border about Walker being helped off the field during his final appearance for the Mustangs, against TCU in 1949.

The April 5, 1948, issue of Life speculating whether H. L. was “the richest man in the U.S.” jolted Lamar, who, in his own words, “had no idea.”