Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...
...singer in Canada when she won a Naumburg Award to cover the cost of a Manhattan debut last year. In December, she gave a Town Hall recital that won her enthusiastic reviews. That did it. She was signed up for a U.S. tour for next season and got a tryout with Toscanini. He was murmuring "Brava" before she had gone very far, "Bravissima...
...part of Ruth in Wonderful Town. Joseph Fields, who wrote the book with Jerome Chodorov, has never met anyone as quick and bright in the theater: "Ros learned her part in two days and was tireless in rehearsals." She also worked herself into the flu in the New Haven tryout and went on opening night with a temperature of 103°. There was more trouble: a chorus boy had dropped her during the conga and in Boston she was treated for a sprained back. The cast held its collective breath until she was up and around again...
Captain of the soccer team for the second straight year this fall, Ufford was elected an All American by the National Collegiate Soccer Coaches Association. Last year he was named to the All-New England team and was also on the Olympic tryout squad. He has played at right halfback for three years...
Cinemactress Bette Davis, heading for Broadway in her first musical comedy (Two's Company), fainted during a solo on an opening-night tryout in Detroit. Carried from the stage, she returned in a few minutes to resume her part, ad-libbed to an applauding audience: "You can't say I didn't fall...