Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean; the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait (see map); the Northwind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier ice eased the passage; even so, the big 269-ft. icebreakers cut and crushed their way through ice four to ten feet thick...
...Airport and into the open arms and bashful buss of Crooner Eddie (I Need You Now) Fisher, 26. The combination of wholesome young love and two stirring success stories was a nation's delight. Daughter of a railroad carpenter, Debbie got into movies in 1948 when a talent scout spotted her wearing a holey bathing suit in a Burbank (Calif.) beauty contest (her family couldn't afford new clothes for her). She not only attained a ripe age (for Hollywood) without marrying anybody, but, so far as anyone knew, had never even been in love before...
...next job, as a mechanic in a Packard assembly plant, that eventually led to a career in art. During lunch hour, Guy and some other factory hands practiced tumbling and acrobatics. A talent scout for a vaudeville team noticed Guy and offered him a job with the troupe. Guy took it, but soon decided the future looked mighty meager. Says he: "I kept seeing all those old acrobats hanging around, and they always looked so sad." Guy, who had always liked to draw, spotted an easier act in the show: the artist on stage who drew pictures of customers...
Chalk & Flour. The day their prize outfielder was separated from the Army, the Giants had a savvy scout named Frank Forbes, 61, waiting at the gate to take him in tow. An oldtime Negro athlete (baseball, basketball and boxing), Forbes is the professional godfather to the Giants' Negro ballplayers. With his other charges safely married, Forbes's main preoccupation is Willie...
...voice's owner turned out to be Pennsylvania-born Peggy King, 24, a pint-size gamine who had been working in the music business for six fairly obscure years. Talent Scout Miller had himself turned her down after hearing several of her records. Intrigued, Miller telephoned Peggy King at her Hollywood home. "This," he began, "is Mitch Miller." "And this," the unbelieving singer answered, "is Snow White. And all the dwarfs are here, too." Identities were finally established, and Peggy King signed with Miller. Last week Columbia issued as her first effort The Hottentot, a tongue twister silly...