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...Christmas is offering the services of 16 mail-order magi for a total cost of $825,000-which tots up to a lot of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Called The Ultimate Gift of Knowledge, a newly published catalogue from the Sakowitz company includes a choice of lessons from top pros in just about every sport or hobby the loved one may want to learn -from skiing to swimming, bronc busting to piano playing. Prudently, perhaps, the company does not offer courses in poetry, philosophy, painting or other such pastures to which it might be difficult to attach a price...
...small wonder that Reisman and his colleagues collected crowds in Asia and Eastern Europe, where table tennis is the sport of commissars. It is smaller wonder that the pros tend to develop quirks that decorate their egos like gargoyles on a tower. Richard Bergmann, the late English titlist, once searched in vain for the perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing...
...Massachusetts has relatively few big-time college sports in basketball, football, or baseball. Except Harvard always wins its division in baseball but after that doesn't do anything. Since there are fewer college teams to follow here, people follow the pros...
...disguise Federal grants to athletes who participate in the less popular sports like swimming and track in order to avoid the "pro" tag which eliminates any chance of Olympic competition? The Russians do it by having their athletes live in comparatively plush quarters, eating the best food. Only our pros in popular sports can afford that type of life style. Mark Spitz had to capitalize quickly on his fame to get any money from his swimming. The question is how badly we want to be the best; we must expect professional responsibilities to take precedence over patriotism unless we change...
...says a phone should be installed as soon as he gets settled in. Pipkin, who Dean Rosovsky appointed in June as the first associate dean of the Faculty for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, is still very much the newcomer to U Hall, a haven for old administrative pros. He could come to wield enormous power--he is officially in charge of all undergraduate education--but for the moment he's still getting acquainted with the administrative ropes. "I spend most of my time now learning what goes on here," he says...