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...meant nothing to 15,000 racing fans who jampacked Belmont's grandstands. Far more exciting to them were two other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman's dream of turning $2 into a four-door sedan...
...Whether Mr. Quill has it in back of his head to give it a tryout here - whether this bus strike is a sort of rehearsal for a general bus, subway, El and taxi strike to come - we don't know...
...practical purposes the tryout resolved into a contest between 1) the Garand and Springfield, and 2) the different systems of combat fire which each represented. The old-fashioned Springfield puts down a sure but comparatively slow fire (12-15 aimed shots a minute, for an average rifleman), is therefore the darling of those who believe with Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill ("Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes") in deliberate, sharpshooting marksmanship. The Garand, 3 to 3½ times faster, is therefore the logical choice of those who put high fire power above all else...
...have had two days of tryouts for Eugene O'Neill's "The Great God Brown," which have attracted a total of twelve students. We refuse to believe that Harvard "indifference" is so great that there doesn't exist sufficient interest among 3500 undergraduates to present a single play in the period from December to June. And so we anxiously hope to have enough students come to our last tryout tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon in Phillips Brooks House to justify our going ahead with our production. Richard W, Greenebaum, President...
Composed of Law and Business School students the Crimson Independents have finally been whittled down into an all-star lineup after a season's experimentation by Manages Tony Gallucio of the Law School, who, this spring, will get a tryout with the Boston...