Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prepared. In New Albany, Ind., Head Librarian Elsa Strassweg resigned herself to the current rash of book thefts: the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook...
...next two seasons Joe Barbao tried to get the Pirates to watch Stan play. A Cardinal scout got there first. Although he was shy about most things, 17-year-old Stan had seen enough poverty to be hardheaded about money, and he signed the contract with misgivings: the Cardinals had a reputation for paying their help poorly. In 1938, when the late Judge Landis decreed that 91 Cardinal farmhands (including Musial) were free agents, Stan sat back again and awaited a call from Pittsburgh. Instead he had a personal visit from Eddie Dyer. After a long apprenticeship as a minor...
...regicide conspiracy? Poor little Wheeler was grilled at length to discover if it was. Rumors spread that he was really a dwarf, or a scout for a gang of thieves, or "a Certain Gentleman's idiot bastard that had been shut up in the Devil's Tower since birth and had escaped after braining his keeper...
Finding replacements for this generation of stars is, Hollywood thinks, its top-priority problem. In other days, that might have meant turning loose an army of assistant producers (and relatives) to scout the nation's soda fountains for blondes. Today's need is great enough to warrant a more elaborate approach...
Higher Authority. In Hollywood, two Apache Indians, hired to build an Indian pine-bough oven on a movie set, held up production while they learned how from a Boy Scout manual...