Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week the giant F. W. Woolworth Co. (2,106 stores) follows the trend with one of the most ambitious projects yet. Buoyed by a two-week tryout in a New Jersey branch, where it sold dime-store buyers 450 art works priced from $17.50 to $2,000, Woolworth will open a permanent art gallery on the second floor of its Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. The gallery will emphasize contemporary art, will open with an 800-work, $750,000 collection that includes etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts by Braque, Chagall, Miró and Luigini. In their three-month search...
...knack for producing big-time coaches?Army's Earl Blaik and Paul Dietzel, Ohio State's Woody Hayes, the pros' Paul Brown, Weeb Ewbank and Sid Gillman. In 1947, a solid 190-lb. halfback, Ara led the Redskins to an undefeated season, won All-America mention and a pro tryout with the Cleveland Browns...
...this season Dockery returned to pre-season training with a different ambition: he wanted to play quarterback, and he wouldn't go back to his old position until he got a tryout...
...course, he almost didn't break in at all. The son of a Pittsburgh coal dealer, he was turned down at Notre Dame and Indiana ("I only weighed 145 then," he explains), finally settled for the University of Louisville. After graduation, the Pittsburgh Steelers gave him a tryout, sent him home. Baltimore found him playing for a Pittsburgh sand-lot team - and signed him up with an 80? phone call that has to be the best investment in pro football history. Unitas set an alltime record by throwing touchdown passes in 47 straight games. He led the Colts...
...whatever happened to his 'little brother, Hank,' " laughs Bauer, by then a strapping 190-lb. six-footer. "I tapped him on the shoulder. 'That's me.' He took one look and said, 'Damn, you've growed.' " Menendez instantly offered him a tryout with the Quincy, Ill. Gems, a Class B Yankee farm club. Terms: $175 a month, a $25 raise if he made the team, plus a $250 bonus. Bauer went home to pack...