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There, between the baseball scores and the fishing tables, the nation's leading golf pros have turned syndicated columnists. It can be an extremely lucrative sideline. Mark H. McCormack and Arthur J. Lafave Jr., Cleveland attorneys who handle the literary careers of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Doug Sanders and Gary Player, count it a poor year when their clients' bylines do not earn at least as much as their tournament play. Palmer's column, which appears in 150 papers, generates upward of $50,000 a year...
...happen to be an athlete. Grambling is the home of Grambling College, a state-operated school with only 3,700 students, half of them girls, and year after year some of the best college football players in the nation. At last count, 17 Grambling alumni were playing with the pros, including All-Pro Safety Man Roosevelt Taylor of the Chicago Bears, 315-lb. Tackle Ernie Ladd of the San Diego Chargers, and End Willie Davis of the Green Bay Packers...
...pros on Harvard's baseball team came through in style yesterday. Paul Del Rossi pitched a six hitter, captain Tommy Stephenson picked up five hits and the Crimson annihilated Dartmouth, 15-0, to clinch the Eastern League championship...
...themselves. Since more than 1,000 models are needed for each of the big shows in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf, more than half of them are recruited from offices, universities, cafe society-and it is becoming more and more difficult to tell the amateur beauties from the pros...
...when he invented the game in 1891. An "enjoyable form of recreation for mature individuals," he called it, and to keep it cool he specified that "no shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking, in any way, the person of an opponent shall be allowed." But Naismith figured without the pros-and particularly without the Boston Celtics, who won the National Basketball Association championship last week by trouncing the San Francisco Warriors in the roughest five games of basketball that memory could recall...