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While gun fights raged around him, 61-year-old William Beaudine Sr. scrambled last week over the rocky hills of Big Bear, Calif. Looking like a scarecrow in a straw sombrero, worn levis and scuffed sneakers, Director Beaudine shouted, "Cut it! Print it!" and wound up the shooting of an eight-episode package of Wild Bill Hickok TV films. Bill Beaudine was making TV movies as quickly and cheaply as any director in the business...
...Hackleman, a University of Illinois agronomist on loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon and operating on the same principle as a flash buoy, it was like nothing Elmer had ever seen in Iowa. He left it reluctantly, to join the professor in the corn wagon...
...when Elmer left to go on to Holland, the French farmers insisted he come back once more and teach them to teach still others before he left for good. Elmer promptly accepted the invitation. For one thing, it will give him a chance to buy one of those cannon scarecrows. An uninhibited man who startled the Democratic conventioneers in Chicago last July by leading a live donkey into the lobby of the Palmer House, Elmer badly wants a cannon scarecrow to take home to Iowa; he thinks he might even set it up on the rail of his ship...
Agathe realizes she is being used, but she has a design of her own-to snare Gilles's brooding young friend Nicolas. And Nicolas, because he worships Gilles, pretends affection for scarecrow Agathe, thus leaving the lovers to each other...
...Memorial Hall was a two-page mimeographed questionnaire. Under the heading, "Please check the two arguments against Universal Military Service that you consider most telling," it listed nine arguments thought up by the "National Council Against Conscription." For a lesson in applying the twin arts of irrelevant argument and scarecrow massacre, no one need look further...