Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office, he talked trade with two executives and checked out the new scorecard. On page 5, Veeck informs White Sox fans, "If your beer is flat, call Millie Johnson, if the washrooms aren't up to par, call David Schaffer. If you'd like a tryout, give C.V. Davis a call. We don't have a complaint department, but we do have people...
When he was 16, Bill, the youngest, was sent to the Menninger Clinic in Kansas. Bridget suffered from ever worsening epilepsy and committed suicide at 21. Maggie, who had always seemed so strong, may also have committed suicide during the tryout of a play she loathed. Stomach problems forced Leland to give up most of his pleasures ten years before he died in 1971, and toward the end his once active mind was reduced and eroded by strokes. Brooke, who was on the cover of LIFE when she was 15, is now 39. She has already had two divorces...
Virtually no one alive saw his first play. Battle of Angels, since it closed during its Boston tryout in 1940, but when it reappeared as Orpheus Descending in 1957, it was not really worth seeing. The Milk Train Doesn 't Stop Here Any More was not a completely negligible drama on its first New York showing in 1963, but its doctored version one year later was comatose. Now Williams has given Summer and Smoke a kind of coronary bypass, but the patient looks pale...
...Dallas Tornados of the North American Soccer League (NASL) have invited David P. Acorn '77, standout forward and co-captain of the soccer team, to a tryout this Saturday at Mercer County Community College in Trenton...
...have been brought to New York for interviews or live auditions, and three have reached the finals: Pauley, 25, who anchors the 5 o'clock news on NBC's Chicago affiliate; Consumer Expert Betty Furness, 60, who took the job provisionally when Walters left and completed her tryout last Friday; and Cassie Mackin, 38, a crack NBC Washington correspondent. After Mackin's final audition next week, NBC will poll 2,000 selected viewers in eight cities on their preference, and network executives expect to crown Walters' successor by Oct. 4-oddly enough, the day Walters makes...