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...broker, glanced around the stands at Fresno, Calif.'s Roosevelt High one day last spring and grinned happily. Scattered among the gum-chewing, chattering teenagers were 30 older but equally familiar figures. To Dale Blasingame, those men meant money in the bank. Every one was a major league scout, and every one was sizing up Dale's 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb., 17year-old son Wade. "I'm in the business of analyzing values," says Blasingame, "and I had a good idea of what the market was on a lefthanded pitcher like...
...scout for the Kansas City Athletics, Lew Krausse Sr., who pitched for the A's in Philadelphia in the 1930s, kept close tab on an 18-year-old Chester, Pa., sensation who pitched 18 high school no-hitters. Last week Krausse and the A's landed the boy. His name: Lew Krausse Jr. His price: a $125,000 bonus...
...many Cambridge residents, however, social work in the neighborhood settlement houses is the most important of PBH's services. In an area with one of the highest juvenile delinquency rates in the country, undergraduates work as club leaders, athletic coaches, scout leaders, and crafts teachers. In this case, the "clubs" are actually neighborhood gangs which have joined in with the settlement house...
Conductor La Selva, 31, is far more than a musical talent scout-as last week's performance demonstrated. He whipped his orchestra through a fiery performance that seemed to burn with fresh brilliance along Menotti's arching melodic lines. Moreover, La Selva kept his singers working in fine coordination with the orchestra as he cued their entrances with a fiercely stabbing finger, a violent toss of his head. At opera's end Composer Menotti, who had watched misty-eyed, rushed backstage to embrace La Selva. "I was," said a surprised Menotti, "extremely moved...
...book has a place in anti-Communist literature, it comes from the fact that basically he was a very ordinary fellow. Not philosophical revulsion or a moral crisis, but outraged innocence was his ticket of leave from the party, and he writes in appropriate style, rather like an Eagle Scout who discovered that the fix was on at national headquarters...