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...build the original troupe: Choreographer Gerald Arpino, 37, and Business Manager Alex Ewing, 37. Over the next year, in a kind of freewheeling fiscal pas de trois, they raised $165,000 and landed two Ford grants totaling $165,000. Ewing, a Yale graduate, arranged for a one-week tryout season at the City Center. Arpino created two new ballets. Jeffrey, meanwhile, hand-picked the best 20 dancers in his school, and rehearsed them until 10 every night for nearly seven months. When the revitalized Jeffrey Ballet finally made its City Center debut in March 1966, it scored such a resounding...
...scout from the Broncos told me that the '49ers would use me for cannon fodder in the tryout camp," Crimson offensive tackle Bob Brooks said yesterday...
...League has ruled Cornell hockey player Bob McGuinn ineligible for the remainder of the season because the junior center signed a tryout agreement with a pro team during his senior year in high school...
Winging & Plinking. That led to Any Wednesday, which had a tryout so calamitous that before the play opened it went through one leading man (Michael Rennie), five directors and 13 endings-the 13th on opening night. The script was so unpromising that it took five coproducers to cajole in the $100,000 nut. As it turned out, Any Wednesday came in on rubber heels-a Broadway term describing a sleeper smash that confounds the handicappers...
...Pete Hall '62 was the last Harvard footballer to tryout for a professional team. He signed with the Patriots as a free agent but was cut before the season began...