Word: semipro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immigrant Italian barber, Sirica entered Georgetown Law School straight from high school and financed his schooling by working as an athletics instructor for the Knights of Columbus and as an occasional exhibition boxer. As a semipro pugilist, he became a friend of Jack Dempsey's and accompanied the Manassa Mauler on bond drives across the U.S. during World...
...Free Cinema." Their self-assigned mission was to break away from the brittle, upper-middle-class-oriented British film tradition and make gritty, naturalistic movies about the life of the English majority-the working class. Anderson succeeded superbly with his 1963 adaptation of David Storey's novel about semipro rugby players, This Sporting Life. He then turned to "strong humanist statements," notably If . . . Set in Anderson's old school, Cheltenham College, If . . . ends with the students revolting against the stifling hypocrisies of the institution by mowing down faculty and trustees with machine guns and grenades...
...third son of Ted and Katie Bench (there is also a daughter Marilyn), Johnny prospered in the kind of aggressively athletic household that can send a young man to the big leagues or the psychiatrist's couch. His father, a onetime truckdriver and furniture salesman, had been a semipro catcher. It was his idea for Johnny to become a catcher; he reasoned that there was a dearth of good ones in the majors and that catching would be the quickest path to success. Ted even created a Little League team in Binger just for Johnny and his brothers. When...
...Billera took over as president, and set out to put his own ideas into effect. He had already had a successfully diverse career. The son of an Italian immigrant tailor, Billera grew up on New York's Lower East Side, worked as a railway-station porter and semipro basketball and baseball player. He also attended night classes at City College of New York, earning a degree in business administration. Today his salary is $122,000 a year. "I stopped working for money years ago," he says. "I'd earned all I'll ever need. Now I work...