Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weston's search, which took only three hours, illustrates the variety of information about a typical American that is readily available to any snoop. "And I am only an amateur," says Weston. If she had been a professional investigator she could have tapped the files of banks, credit bureaus, insurance companies and Government agencies even more extensively-and sometimes illegally -to learn details about the Doderer family's investments, debts, shopping patterns, charities, hobbies, social life medical history, drinking habits and morals...
...Take your partner to Wonderland Dog Track on Wednesday nights. The Butterfly Lounge across the street has an amateur striptease night with $100 top prize. Patrons occasionally get shot for "talkin' down on somebody's woman," providing colorful material for short stories and New Yorker profiles...
...some of bluegrass's biggest names during the nine-day festival: the Osborne Brothers, Fiddlers Kenny Baker and Tex Logan, Banjoist Ralph Stanley and Guitarist Lester Flatt. Many of those present, however, were less interested in the stars onstage than in the chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom...
...change will come too late for those already tainted by a corrupt system. Discus Thrower John Powell, for one, is worried that the IRS will put pressure on Stones to tell all he knows about other athletes. Says Powell: "Stones could turn out to be the John Dean of amateur track." Others cynically predict that AAU reprisals will be selective and merely cosmetic-barring a few scapegoat athletes from competition while resisting fundamental change in the conditions that gave rise to the scandal...
...some 300 employees and last year grossed $35 million. Arnold Palmer, one of McCormack's first clients and closest friends, now earns about $350,000 a year, only some 5% of it from golfing. McCormack can even make financial champions out of novices -like Laura Baugh, a photogenic amateur golfer whom he sent off to Japan at age 17; that year she won no matches but earned nearly $100,000 from endorsements, product tie-ins and television appearances. Still, he is not a man of infinite patience and readily shucks clients who are uncooperative or past their prime...