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...showing for the festival's young, unknown co-producers, Shelly Finkel, 29, and Jim Koplik, 23. The Brooklyn-born Finkel started kicking around the music business a decade ago, when he was a night student in marketing at New York University; he spent several years managing small rock groups. In 1970 one of his groups appeared in a concert at Ohio State University promoted by Koplik, then an undergraduate majoring in sociology. The pair hit it off, and after Koplik graduated they teamed up to promote concerts in Hartford and New Haven, Conn. Watkins Glen was their first...
...secret of our success was time," says Finkel. "We began planning six months ahead and devoted our full time to it for two months, trying to cover all the bases." In contrast to the 1969 Woodstock festival, Summer Jam had a whopping stage (100 ft. by 60 ft. by 12 ft.) completed three weeks before the show. The electrical wires were all put underground, the 1,000 portable toilets were in place a week early, and the 100,000 gal. of bottled water arrived days in advance of the crowds. Koplik and Finkel also laid on five helicopters for constant...
...Hank Finkel, a Celt teammate, says "I don't think you could have picked a better man. He knows how to handle kids and he really has an art of communication with ball players...
Praise for the decision came from many former and present teammates. "I don't think you could have picked a better man. He knows how to handle kids and he really has the art of communication with ballplayers," Celtic teammate Hank Finkel said last night. "I'd sure like to have him back with the Celtics next year...
...first doubles as they cruised to a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Joyee Kramer and Gloria Davis. In the only real contest of the match the second doubles team of Penny Moorhead and captain Jackie Wolf turned back a come-from-behind bid by Maryanne Quelette and Nancy Finkel...