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...recalls her tryout for the School of American Ballet with amusement she did not feel at the time: "I believe that I had a black leotard on, red tights and saddle shoes. I had a huge stomach, teeny little legs and this tremendous head. The teacher came up to me and lifted my leg to see how limber it was. I was desperately holding on to the barre, and the foot I was standing on went right out from under me. I was so tight, so really unsuited for dancing." Admitted to the school despite her pratfall, she renounced skates...
...Ernie D" will be given what amounts to a ten-game tryout with the floundering 16-30 Celtics, as ailing starter Jo Jo White rests his injured left heel...
...dominate the TV job market will be joined by a few other career men. Actor Ed Asner, former chief of MTM's newsroom, gets a Los Angeles newspaper job-and a crusty lady boss-on CBS's Lou Grant. Lawyers Rosetti and Ryan, having survived a spring tryout, will hang out their shingle on NBC. Patrick McGoohan will scrub up in CBS's Rafferty, the season's only medical show, playing a former Army doctor whose professional skills outshine his bedside manner...
Schwaighofer persevered, backed by liberal Catholics in the Bavarian culture ministry. Finally Bavaria's government and the village council voted $387,000 for trial performances of the Rosner text as modified by Schwaighofer and Munich Historian Alois Fink. That revised version was performed in a four-day tryout that ended last week...
...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...