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...activity, Conant met in 1951 with Yale President A. Whitney Griswold and Princeton President Harold W. Dodds to discuss restraining the expansion of intercollegiate athletics. The Statement of Scholarship Policy would lay the groundwork for the formal code of the Ivy Group in 1954, particularly the Ivy commitment to amateur sports...
...November 1952, Maryland football coach Jim Tatum accused the “Big Three”—as the universities that had signed the 1951 scholarship policy came to be called—of concealing scholarships they gave to athletes and speciously maintaining their athletes’ amateur status...
...here?'" says coach Nilsson, "I never would have said Annika had a better chance than any of the others." She did win a scholarship to play at the University of Arizona, where she blossomed in the year-round sunshine, winning the NCAA title as a freshman and the world amateur crown as a sophomore. In 1994 she turned pro and was named Rookie of the Year. In '95 she won her first title, a big one--the U.S. Women's Open...
...television show American Idol and its imitators are hardly breaking ground in entertainment [TELEVISION, May 5]. In 1935 radio listeners were enthralled when Major Bowes' Amateur Hour hit the airwaves, followed by cross-country tours featuring its finalists. A very popular winner was the singing group the Hoboken Four, which featured a 20-year-old, blue-eyed vocalist named Frank Sinatra. MARK NEW Hillsborough...
...acclaimed features and an Oscar nomination. Since his latest film, Pupendo, opened March 27, it has become the Czech Republic's top-grossing movie since 1989, pulling in an estimated $2.2 million at the box office in its first seven weeks. But deep down, the Prague native remains the amateur paleontologist of his childhood. Today, he travels in time through his movies, and the fossils he excavates are buried in the Czech national psyche; the collision of rock 'n' roll and communism in 1950s Czechoslovakia in Big Beat, his debut feature. Czechs collaborating with Nazis in his Oscar-nominated Divided...