Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money to Burn. In the Bitter Root Mountains, Idaho, Bob Hart went on a mountain goat hunt, needed a fire to keep from freezing, could find no kindling, had to use $100 worth of uncashed checks...
...night and a day, the Sun reported, 26 cops busily beat the bushes of the North Shore. None won McCormick's $100 reward. Then Trib Reporter Chester Nichols was assigned to the hunt. After 22 sleepless hours he tracked Lotta down. When admiring cops asked him how he'd done it, Newshawk Nichols replied: "Simple. Until the Tribune hired me four years ago I was the dog-catcher at Evanston." The Sun's headline: SCOOP! MCCORMICK DOG OUTSMARTED BY TRIBUNE...
...that "we oppose any attempt of communist or fascist forces to infiltrate AVC and divert it from its liberal goals. We propose no purges. We are merely spelling out what is implicit in AVC's program: that no communist or fascist can honestly join AVC. The cry of 'witch-hunt' is an attempt at political blackmail to confuse the issue...
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark wore a court plaster on his forehead. Returning from a fox hunt, he had driven his car into a truck...
...give genius a better chance, Professor Corey's committee recommended that a National Commission for the Identification of Talented Youth be set up. The Commission would stage a talent hunt through every high school in the land, using tests to find the top tenth of 1% in each group (about 2,000 in the U.S.). No tests now in use satisfy the committee: tests should measure not only academic aptitude, but scientific and artistic ability, and "talent for constructive social leadership," said Dr. Corey...