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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Away from the then amateur game, he paid his way in life working as a bricklayer and later doing public relations for British Gas.

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Having been around horses all his life - his father was a former leading Irish amateur - it came as no surprise when he became Irish amateur champion.

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Amateur reporters, using mobile phone cameras and Twitter feeds, have stepped in to tell the story of life in the conflict zones.

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