Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduate from Eliot House taught history at his native Arlington High before receiving an offer to play "amateur" hockey in Italy as one of the two foreign players allowed each team. In 1975 he recorded the lowest goals against average in Italy (hey, it may not be much, but it is something you can tell your grandchildren) while leading the S.G. Cortina Doria Club to the Italian ice hockey championship. Bertagna returned to the states last year to play for a team in Wisconsin while attending Marquette's School of Journalism. But the rough and tumble semi-pro existence, complete...
Makavejev got his college degree in psychology at Belgrade University in 1958. He was already known as an amateur film-maker then. "I made my first films when I was just a baby," he says, explaining, "Dreams are actually our first movies...
...Massachusetts Squash Racquets Club Association this weekend is sponsoring the Eighth Annual Boston Open Squash Tournament at Hemenway gym, featuring 28 top professionals and amateur competitors, including "five former Harvard greats," Leonard Bernheimer, president of the association, said yesterday...
...diary. The government is watching-as part of the ban, the Woodses have been informed that their home, their phones, even their two cars are bugged. Plainclothesmen keep their house under surveillance. Woods gets up after 8:30 a.m., an hour later than in his newspaper days. A gifted amateur pianist, he practices, for an hour, Chopin's B-minor Sonata-which, his wife says, should take him a month to master. "It's a virtuoso piece," says Wife Wendy 36 who must now speak for her husband. "The piece has been sitting in the house for years...
...Spielberg the film is a culmination of fantasies he has been nurturing since childhood. Always fascinated by UFOs, he still regrets missing a scout troop outing at which his friends claimed to have seen a blood-red orb looming in space. Firelight, a 2½-hr. amateur effort he made at 16, dealt with an invasion of monsters from another planet...