Word: semipros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...semipro, Feigner pitched a Walla Walla team to a 33-0 victory over Pendleton, Ore. "I'm so good," he said afterwards, "all I need is a catcher to lick you guys." The Pendle ton team took up the challenge. After considerable discussion, it was decided that Feigner would really need three players in addition to himself "in case we ever got the bases loaded." Using a catcher and two infielders, Feigner humiliated Pendleton...
...amateur architect as well as a semipro statesman, Indonesia's President Sukarno often seems bored by the problems of building up his country's economy and feeding its population. Building up the skyline is much more pleasing, and it costs about the same. Last week Sukarno was still working hard at one of his theories: "Asians must show they can do big things as well as anybody else...
...List. Son of a Bridgehampton, Long Island, potato farmer, Yastrzemski started swinging a baseball bat at three. At seven, he was fielding fungos hit by his father, a former semipro ballplayer...
Most brokers believed that the heavy speculation was being done by semipro investors who were switching from sound to risky investments (often in the more volatile over-the-counter market) in the hope of a quick killing in the rising mar ket. Bankers, also concerned about the speculative spree, reported a startling number of fund transfers from savings accounts to brokerage firms. Funston's warning slowed the market down a bit; volume slacked off and prices steadied. But by week's end the market was off and running again. It gained 7.05 points for the week to close...
...Singer Nathan M'dledle (pronounced Muh-dead-ly) played "the King." His girl was played by Miriam Makeba, whose success in the role catapulted her to solo spots in U.S. nightclubs; she has been replaced in the opera by 29-year-old Peggy Phango. From the beginning, the semipro chorus has been filled with carpenters, shop clerks, schoolteachers, messengers, housemaids, typists, even an X-ray technician...