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Tony Galluchio, coach of the second Freshmen and the team's player-coach, is slated for a tryout this spring with the Boston Red Sox. While the future scheduled is still a little in doubt, games are in prospect with Long Island University, the Boston College Independents, and a Yankee Division quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE STUDENTS FORM QUINTET TO PAY THEIR UNIVERSITY EXPENSES | 2/5/1941 | See Source »

...Chariot's Revue came to the U. S. featuring the ludicrous Lillie, the elegant Jack Buchanan, and Gertie. They arrived on Christmas Eve and while waiting for the customs Bea and Gertie sat on their trunks, cried, and sang carols. The revue flopped in an Atlantic City tryout, but a few weeks later it wowed Broadway. Twenty-five-year-old Gertie sang Philip Braham's murmurous Limehouse Blues and a sly comedy song beginning: "I don't know what you think he did that evening. . . ." She was still comparatively unknown in her native England, but that evening the Manhattan audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

After a while I thought about pulling the rip cord. "What about giving the old 'brolly' a tryout?" I thought. . . . The canopy streamed out, there was a hard jerk, and there I was right side up, quite comfortable and floating slowly, oh! so slowly, earthwards. I was about 9-10,000 ft. so I had fallen free for about 8 or 9,000 ft. (from 18,000 ft.) and might have fallen further with advantage. ... A Spitfire dived down past me with a high pitched whine, but that was the only disturbance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...starting center assignment. The loss of Page forced Coach Harlow to return letterman Burgy Ayres back to the pivot post and meet the challenge of "Lono Star" Dietz. Dietz and Page had been handling the center job so capably that Dick Harlow had decided to give Ayres a thorough tryout at the difficult right tackle hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squad Loses John Page For Season's Duration | 9/25/1940 | See Source »

...over .320 this year for Little Rock, a team which features night baseball, and continued to field in big league fashion at first base. He has been used in three Red Sox games so far, is batting .444 and fielding 1.000. Lupien will be given a thorough tryout with Boston next spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUPIEN BREAKS INTO BOSTON LINEUP: BATS, FIELDS WELL | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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