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...thrown out with the pail and shovel, I'm afraid"), and by age nine had composed several preludes for the piano. In high school, where he batted .349 and pitched knuckleballs for the baseball team, he considered abandoning music for the major leagues when he was offered a tryout by the old Boston Braves. But he sacrificed his budding athletic career to begin studying music composition at New York University. A night job as copy boy on the New York Herald Tribune aroused an interest in writing, led to a master's degree in journalism, a stint with...
...visit ing the prison for a speaking engage ment, Martin told him to "come and see me at Tiger Stadium - if you can get a pass to get out." Up for parole, LeFlore got the pass and on June 16 - his 21st birthday - went to Tiger Stadium for a tryout. "I saw him hit balls into the up per deck," says Martin. "If he was 18, you'd pay $100,000 to sign him. He's that good a prospect." Three weeks later, just a few hours after he gained his parole, LeFlore was signed...
...even shut down plants. The cars that were produced would burn excessive amounts of fuel and require repair far too frequently. The automen pleaded with Ruckelshaus to leave antipollution requirements unchanged for an extra year−except in smog-plagued California, where the catalysts could be given a tryout...
...England Patriots offered Harvard's Rod Foster a free-agent contract and invited him to a rookie tryout camp this weekend, but the senior running back has not signed with the NFL club...
...council proposal will get what promises to be a thorough tryout. The Twentieth Century Fund, a small but prestigious nonprofit foundation, announced last week that it was creating a group with two missions: 1) to investigate and report on allegations against major news organizations and 2) to attempt to speak for the press when it is threatened by official restrictions. The project is the result of an 18-month study by 14 jurists, educators and newsmen.* They proposed establishment of a 15-member council comprising journalists and others yet to be named. The chairman will be former California Chief Justice...