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...children are no better. Boy Bud is a hormone-drenched lecherous sleaze, and daughter Kelly could become a professional prostitute, if only she were willing to forfeit her amateur status...
...from life exists, but there are verbal descriptions: tall, a long face, ruddy skin, reddish hair that turned white in middle age. Adopting Spain as his homeland in 1484, Columbus was never to use Italian in his writings. But he soon became bookworm enough to be seen as an amateur geographer as well as a mariner, and to accumulate a large library. Alas, only four of these volumes survive with his annotations...
...Fish gave high marks to freshman Andrew Rueb, who was ranked 22nd in under-18 competition. Rueb has won two national amateur tournaments and is a "good doubles player," according to Fish...
...Fish gave high marks to freshman Andrew Rueb, who was ranked 22nd in under-18 competition. Rueb has won two national amateur tournaments and is a "good doubles player," according to Fish...
...lack of entree at elite courses may contribute to golf's lack of astonishing black role models, a la Michael Jordan -- except, perhaps, for Jordan himself, an eager amateur who joined the Wynstone Club in suburban Chicago because it offers color-blind corporate memberships. Only four of the P.G.A.'s 240 touring pros are black -- and just 25 of the 20,000 country-club pros. The sport's one faint hope for minority recruitment is the Atlanta-based Calvin Peete National Minority Golf Foundation. Set up in 1989 to award scholarships to promising blacks discovered on public courses...