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...Sitting around in a big base camp and knocking back cans of beer--I don't particularly regard as mountaineering." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, who with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, 50 years ago was the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, on the upsurge in amateur climbers since then...
...sport at 17, it's not a big investment." Two years ago Nike signed tennis prodigy Brendan Evans, now 17, for $250,000, and Russian tennis ace Maria Sharapova, 16, pocketed $750,000 from Prince. The lucrative deals are a risk: athletic-company endorsements mean the kids lose amateur status and can't compete in college athletics, which can push them prematurely into the pro arena. The parents of tennis wunderkind Donald Young Jr., 13--the No. 1 player in his age group in the country--have been fending off agents since he was 11. "For now, we want...
DIED. SANDMAN SIMS, 86, tap dancer at Harlem's Apollo Theater, whose job for decades was to chase unpopular acts offstage on amateur nights; in New York City. Howard Sims, who won his stage name for dancing on sand, taught his fancy footwork to dancers Gregory Hines and Ben Vereen, and boxers Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad...
Stoeckel has channeled much of her extracurricular energy into improving Harvard’s squad and raising its profile, starting with the summer following her first year when her experience at a cheering camp made her want to improve Harvard’s relatively amateur squad...
...teacher. “Give me the guitar, I’ll just tune it for you,” he says after Hoelting admits she’d love to learn how to tune a guitar herself without a tuning tool. Taylor’s tolerance for amateur music-making seems too low to cater to Hoelting’s wishes for general inspiration, but she is endearingly chipper about the whole thing, even after he calls her version of the famous Beatles song a “panicked, struggling, almost, quasi-‘Blackbird...