Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the Tarr studios, introducing himself as a "Metro talent scout," and asked for the girl's name & address. Her name, he heard, was Ava Gardner, and she lived down in North Carolina. Disappointed that he could not meet her, Duhan told Tarr to send some pictures over. Tarr sent 60. Metro bigwigs saw them...
...within a few months she was on her way to Hollywood as a "starlet" at $50 a week. "It never dawned on me," she says, "that I wasn't going to be a smash right away." Apparently it never dawned on anyone to reward her discoverer: Talent Scout Duhan is now a New York City...
...year ago, Luisa María wrote to Pretender Don Juan, urging him to land on the sea coast of northwestern Spain and march on Madrid: "My Lord, Napoleon's march from Antibes to Paris will look like a Boy Scout parade compared to your triumphant and bloodless march through Spain . . . Not one person will stand in your way. My Lord, your moment has come. Spain is waiting . . ." Even the country's most ardent male monarchists were appalled. Said one: "Luckily it was a letter and not a plea supported by her presence and personality that reached...
...Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, and Bert Parks . . . he is an eminently serious person who communicates to the audience a feeling of the importance, usefulness and rightness of his program. Respondents' references to him are quite reminiscent of the things they might say of an ideal arbiter, coach, Scout leader or father...
Mothers & Boy Scouts. The U.M.T. law provides that all males 18 years of age take six months of "basic military training," then spend the next 7½ years in the reserves. But technically, UMTers will not be in the regular services while taking basic. That is why the $50-a-day experts must report back to Congress in three months, after working out a special system of military justice, of death and disability benefits and similar safeguards for the boys. They must also provide against the possibility that Congress, beset by anxious mothers, will water down the training so much...