Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most improbable bestseller of 1967 was Paper Lion, in which that professional amateur, George Plimpton, gave a Mittyesque account of his preseason tryout with the Detroit Lions' football team. Now comes an instant replay of Plimpton's adventure, presumably aimed at the millions of armchair quarterbacks who spend every Sunday afternoon in the fall glued to the pro games on TV. As a film, unfortunately, Paper Lion has all the interest of a five-yard penalty; it sadly lacks both the charm and sensitivity of the original...
Dear World--A dull musical with nothing to recommend it except the beautiful Angela Lansbury. Jerry Herman wrote the unhelpful score. Pre-Broadway tryout at the COLONIAL...
...league games into minor league towns leads the list), then grandly conclude that nobody misses the minor leagues because even without them overall baseball attendance is higher than ever. To me, one of the thousands who hitchhiked into a Class D town as a teen-ager begging for a tryout, these stories are missing the point. They do not account for what a minor league ball club meant to towns like Graceville, Fla., and Valdosta, Ga., and Hornell, N.Y. and Thibodaux, La. Nor what it meant to the men who played it; men with names like Ernie Oravetz...
...joined the Marines and was shipped to Okinawa. "For the first 18 months, I was a machine gunner," he says. Then he shot a 66 in a tryout for his division's golf team-and spent the remaining 2½ years of his military career in special services, playing in tournaments in Japan, Formosa and the Philippines. Mustered out in 1961, he went back to his old driving-range job and supplemented his income by hustling suckers for bets at Dallas' Tenison Municipal Golf Course. His favorite trick was to play with an adhesive-wrapped soft drink bottle...
...build the original troupe: Choreographer Gerald Arpino, 37, and Business Manager Alex Ewing, 37. Over the next year, in a kind of freewheeling fiscal pas de trois, they raised $165,000 and landed two Ford grants totaling $165,000. Ewing, a Yale graduate, arranged for a one-week tryout season at the City Center. Arpino created two new ballets. Jeffrey, meanwhile, hand-picked the best 20 dancers in his school, and rehearsed them until 10 every night for nearly seven months. When the revitalized Jeffrey Ballet finally made its City Center debut in March 1966, it scored such a resounding...