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...seemed like the ultimate success," Reagan recalls thinking, and the attitude was commonplace. Boys worked as store clerks for ten hours a day to earn a dollar. Before Reagan got the tryout at WOC that took him by bus weekly from Illinois to Iowa through the football season, he considered seeking a $12.50 a week post at Montgomery Ward, where his father Jack sold shoes. In those days, $12.50 was a good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee...
Seeing Ingari practicing some of the maneuvers he learned in one lone year of high school competition diving, coach John Walker invited him to tryout for the third slot behind Mule and Karl Illig. After making, the squad, Ingari then managed to learn a full list of collegiate dives in just five weeks--even the twists, which he'd never tried before...
...Oberg, who is also president of the Pi Eta Speakers Club, plans eventually to attend business school but adds, "there's a lot of time to go to work.," Meanwhile, he'll spendnext summer in New Zealand to fine tune his rugby skills, then return to California for a tryout with the Pacific Coast team, and--if things go right--the U.S. National squad...
Reflecting on the tryout, Oberg says, "After six years, I'm ready to give the game a shot at a higher level," adding, "I'd always wonder if I didn...
...Durgin gets an offer for a pro tryout, he'll give it a shot. He thinks the Harvard football program has prepared him well. "We've been taught to play a game of controlled aggression--you have to button down your helmet and hit, but you've got to be thinking...