Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's first smash hit, The Boy Friend, saw its author locked out of rehearsals with a detective guarding the door. Silk Stockings was more spotlighted during its harassed tryout than are most hits at the peak of their run. Such so-so plays as Anastasia and Inherit the Wind packed enough second-act wallop to have the whole town talking. House of Flowers featured gorgeous rival bordellos, Lunatics and Lovers a bubble bath onstage...
...basketball player, even though the H.A.A. designates him as "minor." Indeed, the same track runner who receives a major letter in the spring probably received a minor letter in the fall for cross country. In reality, however, few athletes even consider the status of a sport when they tryout for it. Instead of being a personal token from the College, a major letter thus becomes an arbitrary distinction, awarded by outside popularity t the athlete who was on the right team. Clearly then, all letters should have the same value. An equal amount of effort deserves equal recognition...
Knipling's Machiavellian scheme was given a preliminary tryout in Florida with good results. Then last year an entomological task force invaded the Dutch island of Curacao in the Carribbean, where screw worms were strongly in possession. Supplied by air with male flies raised in Florida (on blood and horse meat) and sterilized by gamma rays from Cobalt 60, the experimenters released them on the island at the rate of 400 males a week for each square mile...
...cleaning and pressing. There was no baseball team, but Willie at 14 was already good enough to play with steel-mill clubs and independent semipros. When Willie was 16, Kitty Cat called up his old friend, Lorenzo ("Piper") Davis, manager of the Black Barons, and got the boy a tryout. Three games later, young Buckduck Mays was the Barons' regular centerfielder...
...first half of this year, the big truck order is a gamble. But Riss, an old poker-playing crony of Harry Truman, has had a long career of cashing in on his gambles. He got into trucking by way of semi-pro baseball. On the strength of a flashy tryout for a team at Colorado Springs, he was touted as a new sensation...