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...tried out last year at the University of Buffalo with some success, and has been instituted in 17 other areas all over the country. What with the new tuition hike and the financial pressures of living under the G.I. bill, any good plan for saving deserves a fair tryout...
...Kleenex, sharpened pencils. When Porter travels, even his own ashtrays go with him, and he likes them kept so neat that at parties a servant cleans them up almost before a guest can crunch a cigarette out. When Porter went to Philadelphia for Kate's 3½-week tryout, he took along five paintings, including a large Grandma Moses snowscape, to make his hotel suite homelike...
...flunked out a year later, his father reluctantly agreed to let him play hockey: "I think he thought I'd be lousy and get it out of my system." Lynn practiced eight hours a day, made the amateur Montreal Royals in one season, was ready for a Ranger tryout the next year...
Teaming up with the Weather Bureau, the Air Force has given scientific rainmaking a full-dress tryout. It set aside an 8-by-20-mile area near Wilmington, Ohio, and dotted it with ground observation stations. Powerful radar sets kept watch on the air above. When promising clouds appeared, an RB-17 Flying Fortress, loaded with dry-ice pellets, took off from Clinton County Air Force Base; an RF-61 Black Widow photographed the operation...
...hired as a professional ballplayer for the San Francisco Seals, Papa's objections melted. Joe was peeping through a knothole one afternoon, watching brother Vince play, when a Seals' scout, Spike Hennessey, clapped him on the back. How would he like to come inside for a tryout? Joe could think of nothing he wanted more. Five years later, little brother Dom was given his chance too, on the strength of being a DiMaggio...