Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eating on the air had an NBC tryout last year with three broadcasts originating in the floral centerpiece on Magazine Editor Henry Goddard Leach's dinner table. These were big, celebrity-peppered parties. CBS plans to entertain only four guests each week, to draw them from all economic levels, all shades of political opinion. "We hope with The People's Platform to demonstrate the scientific method of reaching conclusions," explained Educator Bryson...
...MacDonald released his mouse every 20 seconds, frequently hauled out a fresh one. But the spectators got so excited over the mouse's antics that they forgot to place their bets regularly. Manager Smith, annoyed, swore: "There will never be another mouse game in this club." During the tryout one frightened mouse escaped. Another, indifferent to the croupier's threats and pleadings, made for the centre of the wheel, where he sat down, unabashedly licked himself from head to tail...
Edward M. Rowe '27 will select 12 of the contestants tonight, and these men will compete later for the six team positions, the losers becoming alternates. The Jefferson Coolidge fund provides a prize of $100 for the winner of tonight's tryout. Although the prize has been split three ways in previous years, the whole sum can be awarded...
...teams are to be made up from the winning six, one to face Yale at New Haven in a debate on the same subject as tonight's tryout and the other to meet Princeton here...
...must decide on the sort of business he wants. To this end he must do much investigating, not only of business opportunities but of his own aptitudes. He should do a great deal of reading, and talk with many people. If possible he should have one or two tryout experiences during his summer vacations...