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...looking all the time for new talent," Ward said just a few days ago, joyfully gathering memories of a half-century ago and trying to put them in proper place. "I didn't care if he had a broken nose or floppy ears. There was something about him. I saw in front of me a man who could communicate...
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...