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Tony Ronzone is basketball's premier frequent flyer. He has coached in Saudi Arabia, searched for a point guard in Montenegro, evaded Yugoslav border police to scout a power forward and twice visited North Korea to peek at a 7ft. 9-in. center. One September day in 1998, Ronzone was conducting a hoops clinic in Shanghai when he received an invitation to an 18th-birthday party. The birthday boy was quick, graceful--and 7 ft. 3 in. tall. Ronzone accepted. "The parents were there, maybe a few Chinese officials," Ronzone recalls. "We're all stuffed into this apartment the size...
Ogunlesi has lived in New York for 20 years and is active in volunteer work. But he also cultivates his ties to Africa. He informally advises the Nigerian government on privatization. And last summer Manute Bol, the 7ft. 7-in. former NBA center, visited Ogunlesi in his Park Avenue office, seeking donations for a charitable foundation in Bol's homeland, Sudan. The 5-ft. 9-in. Ogunlesi walked Bol around the hallways, introducing him to junior staff. It was just another day in the Bayosphere...
Embree leapt over a field of 46 to be one of the final 12 qualifiers. His qualifying height was 7ft. 1 in. but that was as high as he was to go, as a torrential downpour washed out his chances at the title...
...star of the forthcoming CBS-TV series, Gentle Ben, fended off the attack of a Bengal tiger with almost playful aplomb, breezed through the retakes without missing a cue. Congratulated by Producer George Sherman, Ben merely grunted and slurped down a can of sardines-just as any 7ft.-long, 650-lb. black bear would do after a hard day on the set. Says Sherman: "You look at the script and say 'a bear can't do those things. It's got to be a guy in a bear suit.' But it is a bear...
...shot (7ft. limit)- W. W. Coe, Jr., Hop., scratch; J. M. Trainer 1900, 3 1-2 ft.; A. Boal 1900, 3 1-2 ft.; E. F. Phillips '98, 3 I-2 ft.; S. G. Ellis 1901, 6 in.; H. H. Fox 1900, 3 1-2 ft.; O. W. Richardson '99, 3 1-2 ft.; R. A. Leeson 1901, 3 1-2 ft.; R. Garland '99, 3 1-2 ft.; P. Jaffray '99, 1 ft.; S. F. Mills...