Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barclay's opinion, the New Look at Soldiers Field come spring practice will feature plenty of pitch outs, spinners, short punt formations and the like...
...heel, and it is a somewhat naked one at that. Entrance to Music A--the basic course in theory--is blocked by so many prerequisites that it is virtually impossible for most non-concentrators to take the course. The prerequisites require students to pass a test involving sense of pitch and rhythm, and to display pianistic ability, both in playing easy pieces and in sight-reading. Although the degree of proficiency required is small, it is nonetheless prohibitive to the beginner. Furthermore, music theory is the only field in the College from which the non-concentrating amateur is virtually excluded...
...Washington, she danced with Hollywood's beautiful Robert Taylor at the Navy Relief Society Ball. In Philadelphia, the Robin Hood Dell concert people wanted her for a July concert (at a reported $2,500), and it looked as if she might drop over from the Dell and pitch a few notes to the Democratic National Convention...
...pitch was petulant, as usual, but the lines had the lingering quality of an old torch song at midnight. "It's never, never, never," intoned James Caesar Petrillo. "That's all there is to it." And at midnight on New Year's Eve that was all there...
...upholstered cellars came Funnyman Danny Thomas to make his big pitch at radio. What with his howling nightclub fans and his recent success in MGM's Unfinished Dance, his pink stucco Hollywood house and his red Lincoln, Thomas is already so well equipped that he is not too nervous over the success of his new radio show (Fri. 8:30 p.m., E.S.T., CBS). On the air last week, radio listeners lost some of the Thomas appeal that nightclubbers admire: the calflike face, the eloquent hands, the prehensile nose ("If you're going to have a nose," he challenges...