Barry, a Cape Cod surgeon, who purchased it new in 1957 and played it as an amateur throughout his life.

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Eton and Cambridge shaped his life as an amateur, using that word in its precise sense, as an enthusiast.

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But she asserted she could write an advice column "because all of her life she had been an amateur 'wailing wall without portfolio, ' " the syndicate said.

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