Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning a scout plane from the cruiser Omaha flushed another enemy cargo boat. Before the Omaha and escorting destroyer Jouett could overtake her, the quarry blew herself up. Next day the sea drama was repeated; still another blockade-runner went to the bottom. The U.S. ships rescued most of the crewmen, presently learned that the vessels they had sunk were the German freighters Rio Grande, Burgenland and Weserland. One unexpected trophy of the chase was several hundred tons of baled rubber, blown free of the ships and floating...
...West Coast got major-league baseball? It has the fans and the players to justify it. Those are the vociferous sentiments of Clarence Henry Rowland. Last week West Coast baseball took a long step nearer major-league status. For "Pants" Rowland, ex-barkeep, umpire, manager and scout, was elected president of the Pacific Coast League (eight teams, Seattle to Los Angeles...
Pants is also called a man of surprises: no big-league player himself, he managed the White Sox to Chicago's last world championship, in 1917. As a Cub scout 21 years later, he obeyed Owner P. K. Wrigley's orders to buy lame-armed Dizzy Dean at any price, finally landed him for the most improvidently invested $185,000 in baseball history...
...toss a plot into the script, thereby only adding to the general confusion. Olsen and Johnson play themselves, supposedly banned from their studio by an irate producer. Undaunted, they form their own company, with Franchot Tone as director and a would-be millionaire as financial backer. Tone, as talent scout, discovers the love interest--Marsha Hunt. In an hour and a quarter of slapstick "humor" and distorted romance, the bedlam increases, until climaxed by the sale of the movie-within-a-movie for over a million dollars (stage money...
...stories, essays, articles and poems by authors of the Midwest and Southwest (Jesse Stuart, Eudora Wel.ty, Frank Luther Mott, Mari Sandoz, Albert Halper, August Derleth, et al.), make up Prairie Schooner Caravan, an anthology culled from the University of Nebraska's 17-year-old quarterly, Prairie Schooner ("talent scout of the midlands...