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...should be reserved for the handful of correspondents here. [They] have proved they're just as tough as marines-otherwise they couldn't cover this war." Tyree modestly declined an invitation to join the Guadalcanal Press Club. The initiation ceremony was too strenuous: the members take the tenderfoot out and get him shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tough as Marines | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...hero of The Gold Rush is billed as The Lone Prospector, a tenderfoot out for Alaskan gold. In his running narrative, Chaplin calls him "the Little Fellow." With eloquent timing he jaunts along the rim of a ledge high in Chilkoot Pass, unknowingly trailed by a big black bear, and the picture is away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1942 | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Superbly filmed (in Technicolor) by Vienna-born Director Fritz Lang, Western Union has the same swift pace and scenic beauty that distinguished John Ford's Stagecoach two years ago. The players are uniformly ingratiating-including Robert Young as a brash young tenderfoot from Harvard who finally avenges Vance's death. But acting honors go to lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Randy Scott, who in Western Union plays his 18th Zane Grey character, looks more than ever like a 1941 Bill Hart. Virginia-born, educated at swank Woodberry Forest School and the University of North Carolina, Actor Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...when modern kids are only eligible to be Tenderfoot Scouts, Dan and his gang were running the Union pickets, ducking Minie balls in No Man's Land along the Licking River outside Covington, sneaking into Union trenches, sniping at a Rebel gang across the river with rocks, scrap iron, shotguns loaded with nails and gravel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boy's Man | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce airplane arrivals and departures to a people who fly 17 times as much per capita as their fellow citizens in the States. It hopes to teach the sourdough how to make better biscuits, and to school the cheechako (tenderfoot) in the art of mining. It will broadcast four to six news periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cheechako Radio | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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