Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maplewood, N.J., whose father deals in real estate, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Capable of inflammatory rhetoric on an improvised platform but often disarmingly polite with his professorial elders. Mark Rudd is a B +average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba earlier this year), has tutored youngsters in Harlem in his spare time...
...into a realm. He achieves one of those memorable personifications where the actor imperceptibly fuses artifice and reality. He dominates the stage with feral tenacity, and there is an uncannily mnemonic effect in his feat of physical resemblance. The pudgy hands thrust the walking stick forward like an advance scout probing enemy territory; the pouty lips nurse the huge cigar; the gruff, lisping voice rasps out even cadences like waves beating on the shore. Many of the words he is given to say, however, seem in closer accord with der Führer Prinzip than with bluff British pragmatism. Never...
...while he was at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1964. "My catcher was a fellow named John Lucchese," recalls Jerry, "whose father was an usher at Shea Stadium. He told his dad he had a pretty good pitcher, and his dad told the Mets. They sent a guy out to scout me, and he offered me $1,600 to sign. I turned him down, so the next time he offered me $1,500. Every time he talked to me, he offered me $100 less, and I finally signed for $1,200. I figured that if I didn't sign pretty...
...only thing the Crimson knows for sure about the Big Green is that they've lost all their Ivy games this season and should not pose much of a threat. "Dartmouth is the one team we just haven't had time to scout," coach Bruce Munro said yesterday. "We don't know quite what strategy to expect from them...
When citizenship time comes, Kaplan practices for the judge's (Rufus Smith) questions. Asked to recite the Preamble to the Constitution, the marvelously assured Kaplan rattles off the Boy Scout oath. "That isn't in the Constitution," he is told. His face momentarily clouded in mock chagrin, Kaplan replies, "It isn't? Well, it should be." Saturated with Tom Bosley's warm humanity and lit with his winning smile, Kaplan seems to exemplify what F. Scott Fitzgerald once defined as the essence of America-"a willingness of the heart...