Word: woodsmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hutton's background apparently immunized her against chichiness. Born in Charleston, S.C., reared in southern Florida, Mary Laurence Hutton led a tomboy's existence. She learned woodsmanship, fishing and baby-alligator trapping from her stepfather, Jack Hall. (Hutton is the name of her real father, who died after her parents separated; Lauren she borrowed from Bacall.) A scruffy, skinny girl whom the kids called "the yellow wax bean," she earned her first pennies selling worms to fishermen. It took a matchmaking teacher to get her an escort for the senior prom. She wore blue jeans all through high...