Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks, 1,200 half tracks, 3,300 armored scout cars, 1,700 ordnance vehicles...
...Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters...and Captain David Walter Allard of our Cleveland staff has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart and the Croix de guerre with palm for "extraordinary heroism in action." (Allard volunteered to swim the Seine under heavy fire to scout out German positions - was wounded getting back - "despite great pain gave detailed accounts of the enemy disposition that contributed greatly to the success of the crossing...
...Selznick, she combines and uses the talents of ace trouble shooter, saleswoman, fixer, promoter, talent scout, fashion ex pert, beauty expert and housemother. Ingrid Bergman would prefer not to be photographed unless Colby is on hand. Jennifer Jones thinks twice about blowing her nose without reporting to Colby. Inde pendent of Publicity Chief Don King, she works closely with Selznick, handling all deals public and personal which call for grade-A finesse. Her social and journalistic contacts in both New York and Hollywood are peerless; she calls Winchell Walter and Lyons Lennie. To all the people on earth who most...
...Forces, comes to the screen substantially unchanged in cast, story and general feeling. Like the original play, it is as immaculately robust as if it had just stepped out of a barracks shower; indeed, it would gain considerably if it did not so often suggest a Boy Scout Jamboree. Like the original, too, it generates among spectators the sort of friendliness normally reserved for amateurs, since all of its male performers are Air Forces men and the profits go to Army charities. But every one of the players was a more or less seasoned professional of stage, screen or radio...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...