Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimental Aerotrains has been sent to the La Grange, Ill. yards for remodeling. The other, turned back by Union Pacific after a disappointing nine-month test run between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, is about to be leased to National Railways of Mexico for a tryout there...
...Shirley Temple, who squeezed coos and clucks from the moviegoing world as the gold-topped cinemoppet of the '30s, announced that she would end an eight-year retirement from show business, seek ohs and ahs as the narrator and sometime star of a series of TV fairy tales. Tryout audience for her stories of dragons and derring-do: her children Susan 9, Charles 5, and Lori...
...Song makes the best hot-weather din-and-tonic, thinks NBC. The 7:30 evening slot will be tryout time for promising Vocalist June (Crying in the Chapel) Valli. Baritone Andy Williams and resurgent, as-good-as-ever Helen O'Connell. Tennessee Ernie Ford will end his daytime pea-pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color...
Football Was War. It was probably inevitable that O'Brien would become an athlete. His father, a former bush-league ballplayer good enough to earn a tryout with the 1926 Athletics, tried his best to steer his only son toward big-league baseball. But when Parry was not fooling around on the handy home-town beaches of Santa Monica, Calif., he was proving himself one of the best ends in the state on Santa Monica High's championship football team and toying with the 12-lb. shot at high-school meets. He decided to accept a football scholarship...
Speeches should be six minutes long and on a topic of contemporary interest or the scholarly interest of the candidates. Several candidates from each division will be selected for an oral tryout on April 25, in Sanders Theater...