Word: semipro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Travolta clan has not yet become the Barrymores of Bergen County it will not be for want of the firm support and encouragement of Helen ("a very sensitive, giving woman," says Johnny) and Sam ("a very gentle, sensitive man") Travolta. Sam played semipro football and baseball, worked in the tire business to keep the family dreams within reach. Helen, who was one of the Sunshine Sisters on Hackensack radio during the '30s, joined a local stock company after she married Sam. "She was a great, great actress," Sam says. Adds Helen: "They used to compare me with Barbara Stanwyck...
Died. Peter Lisagor, 61, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News and the best all-round newspaper correspondent in the nation's capital; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Born poor in West Virginia, Lisagor played semipro baseball to pay his way through the University of Michigan. He joined the Daily News in 1939 and was assigned to Washington eleven years later. His stories, columns, speeches and TV appearances on NBC's Meet the Press, Public Broadcasting's Washington Week in Review and other programs were marked by incisive perception, dry wit and uncommon warmth and humanity...
...hockey version of the Budweiser Beer Wagon rolled into the Watson Rink last night, but instead of being driven by horses the semipro Budweiser Kings were led by former Crimson hockey players. Experience shone through, as the Kings beat the Crimson J.V. on a shot by Steve Didadgin '75 at 17:35 of the final period...
...lead characters in your article, Tom Seaver, is a graduate of the Fairbanks semipro team, the Gold Fanners, and this year's first major league draft choice, Steve Kemp, played for Fairbanks for the past two seasons. In all, nearly 40 major leaguers have played for the Fanners. The Fairbanks team won the National Baseball Congress championship in '72, '73 and '74, and nearly repeated in 1975 before being nosed out by those archrivals from the "Deep South," the Anchorage Glacier-Pilots...
...every American town has a factory or transit system or even so much as a semipro softball team, but there is hardly a hamlet in the U.S. without a newspaper. Thus, for those who choose to work as journalists, the chances are good of spending time on a small-town daily at some point. There is, for instance, Senior Writer Lance Morrow, who wrote this week's cover story on the great American migration from the big cities to smaller cities, rural areas and the Sunbelt. As a high school student, Morrow spent summers in Danville, Pa., covering fires...