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...When I'm out of the game?" Rose mulled over the thought. "You know I never will be. Whatever I am, whatever I become, wherever I've been, wherever I go, it's because of baseball. Coach, scout, manager, broadcaster. I'll be something in the game." And when he looks back, what will be his main satisfactions? "That I was durable, that I was consistent. Oh, and when someone's chasing my records and they ask me to come to the ballpark, I'll be there." But the time is not near...
...forested, hilly 20-acre plot several hundred yards long. We split into two seven-man squads, put on our goggles, tied on red or yellow armbands and entered the woods. Our enemy was a quarter-mile away. Gaines and another man would defend our yellow flag. A single freelance scout would head out by himself to do what damage he could, and four of us would range as an attack squad to capture the opposing red flag. I loped off with the attackers, a middle-aged gun-control advocate in a camouflage shirt, knocking the brush aside with my pistol...
...director of more than 100 films, from silent-era chestnuts like Stella Dallas (1925) to Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Gunfighter (1950) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); in Toluca Lake, Calif. An early champion of location shooting who flew his own small plane to scout the areas he used, King had an especially sharp eye for spotting undiscovered talent and helped to launch careers for such stars as Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Jennifer Jones and Ronald Colman (whose dapper trademark mustache King first drew on the actor with a retouching pencil...
Patrick always says "he or she" when women are in earshot. He thinks he ought to say it also when only men are around--to set a good example--but it usually makes him feel like a neon Boy Scout...
...Secaucus, N.J., recruit investigators to dig up damaging information about the Government officials who have been pursuing the charges against the Secretary. Philip R. Manuel, a private detective who claims to have a "loose consulting arrangement" with the White House, is believed by these sources to be a talent scout for the New Jersey firm in its hunt for sleuths...