Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When, owing to complications from an old back injury, doctors gave him six months to live, Righter looked at his own horoscope and found he had "physical protection in the Southwest." He moved to Los Angeles, and "in a year I could dance." His amateur astrologizing proved to be so popular among the movie crowd that he turned professional in 1939. In the 30 years since then, a constellation of Hollywood stars have been his clients, and his rooms are crammed with photographs of the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Susan Hayward, Robert Cummings, Tyrone Power, Van Johnson, Ronald Colman, Peter...
...winter-quiet weekend. Mary Ann Wysocki, a college student, and Patricia Walsh, a teacher, both 23, checked in at a guesthouse run by Patricia Morton. That night they visited three Provincetown bars. At one called the Fo'cs'l, they met Antone Costa, 24, an unemployed handyman, amateur taxidermist and divorced father of three, who was also staying at Mrs. Morton's. The girls checked out the next day and were never again seen alive...
...doesn't know exactly whom he is thinking about, so he jumps into his little green sports car and tools around Los Angeles, searching for love and himself. He finds both through an exquisite Frenchwoman named Lola (Anouk Aimee) who earns her living as a "model" for passionate amateur photographers. After a night of love, or what passes for love under Demy's dewy auspices, George selflessly gives Lola the plane fare back to Paris, ditches his chick and prepares to serve his country...
...sophomore, Terrell lost only one team match and finished second to Nayar in collegiate competition. The high point of his season was a victory over second seed Bob Hetherington, an ex-Yale star, in the National Amateur Tournament...
...first player, Terrell should gain both experience and confidence from the greater challenges. He is already acknowledged as the heir to Nayar's collegiate title, and his real test will be the National Amateur Championship...