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Enterprising assembly salesmen looked elsewhere to ferret out an audience and the show went on, but it was not exactly the gala the polls had predicted...
...network of contacts, often playing the role of matchmaker. "I don't think alumni can judge athletic talent," Stoeckel says, "but they help relay information and establish crucial follow-up contact." Stoeckel serves as liaison between the admissions committee and the athletic department, a position created to improve and ferret out as many viable candidates as possible. "We don't want to force a choice between a good athletic program and a good education on applicants we feel we can offer both," Stoeckel says, adding, "If we have serious doubts about capability or contribution, we won't admit an applicant...
Trust Barbara Walters to ferret out a secret. Interviewing Fred Astaire, Walters bluntly asked Hollywood's soigné cine-dancer whether he planned to marry Woman Jockey Robyn Smith, 35. Said Fred, 80: "She is a great girl." Well, had he popped the question? "Yes, sure." Would they wed soon? "I think so." What about the age difference? "I don't even think about it." Smith, once a jock for and good friend to Maryland Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 67, met Widower Astaire eight years ago while she was riding the California tracks; their feelings quickly became parimutual...
This simply cannot be all there is to it, chief. The folks at Bantam did not pay all that money just to make Judith Krantz happy. They know something, and we should ferret it out. Suggestion: Why not send the reviewer off on an expense-account tour of some of the glamorous locales in the novel? To Venice, for instance, a room at the Gritti Palace, drinks and long languorous meals at Harry's Bar. The secret of this book may rest right there. Look how this magical place affects the heroine: "Venice inspired her to meet its fantasy...
Very often the erroneous stories see print, properly buttressed by improper footnotes and references. Yet, if he persists long enough, the biographer can usually ferret out the facts about anybody...