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That comes from a long career working his way up through the London music scene. After leaving school at the age of 18, he started as a runner at a talent-scout company called MPC and says he was so junior he was "getting the secretaries sandwiches." Desperate for a job in music, he started cold-calling record-label bosses in the Music Week directory until he got through by chance to Maurice Oberstein, a senior executive at CBS Records. His persistence was rewarded with a job in the company's artists and repertoire (A&R) division, hunting...
Your story was right on the money, except you refer to the Eagle Scout that Secretary Gates "was." Please remember: once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout...
...story. My great-grandfather Reuben and his brother left Russia instead of serving in the army. This, it seems, is where I get my bravery from. But later, when Reuben's dad was looking to get the rest of the family out of Russia, he sent family members to scout out New York, Brazil and Argentina and wound up ditching my great-grandfather and taking his eight other kids to Argentina, where they made a lot more money than their American siblings. All my cousins there are rich artists. Which means, according to everything I know about family histories...
...That makes coaches feel really good, because then you’re hard to scout, you’re hard to play against,” Stone said...
Harvard had the benefit of being able to scout the Minutewomen—who have already played four games this season—and was able to prepare for and respond to UMass’s aggressive and physical style of play...