Word: ward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right off there is a problem. Reagan has to leave in several days to go back to Des Moines. So Ward right there calls up his friend Max Arnow, who agrees to give Reagan a quick test. Ward takes his new friend out to the studio in his green Chrysler, and after one glance Arnow puts Reagan to work on a script...
...days later, Ward picks up Reagan and drives him to the train station. "How'd the test go?" he asks. "I guess it went all right," answers Reagan, not all that sure. Ward cautions about getting hopes too high and packs Reagan off for Iowa...
...phone rings in the little office on Sunset Strip. Arnow says that Jack Warner has seen Reagan's test and wants to sign him. Normal starting contract is for a few months. Ward asks for a year's deal, since Reagan is probably making $75 a week and can't give that kind of good money up to run back to California on short terms. O.K., agrees Arnow, a year at $200 a week. Ward wires the news to Des Moines. Reagan is near ecstasy. He pours out his heart in a two-page longhand letter to Ward. "Sometimes those...
...some reason he still cannot explain, Ward keeps this letter and another one Reagan writes a couple of weeks later. Though Ward throws away dozens of letters from bigger stars over the years, he continues to cling to these...
...George Ward and his wife Vera arrive outside the White House. They are escorted through three different holding rooms until they are standing at the President's door. Ward, now a peppy Portland grandfather, has never seen anything like this, even in his Hollywood years. The doors open. Some set. Across the room is Dutch Reagan under his undimmed 150-watt smile. He strides up to the Wards, puts his arms around Vera, looks at George and says, "Can you believe it has been 48 years since I walked into your office? It's a little different now. See what...