Word: scot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge of the CRIMSON until February 1, 1948, will be a board headed by R. Scot Leavitt '46, President. Other Executive Board members include J. Anthony Lewis '48, Managing Editor; Robert S. Leventhal '48, Business Manager; Joseph H. Sharlitt '45, Editorial Chairman; Shane E. Riorden '46, Executive Editor; Ernest L. Bell '49, Photographic Chairman; and Myron Stein '46, Advertising Manager. Positions on the Executive Board are: Stanley J. Friedman '48, News Editor; Robert W. Morgan, Jr. '46, Sports Editor; Waldo Profitt, Jr. '46, Assistant Editorial Chairman; Roger H. Wilson '47, Telegraph Editor; Richard L. Wattling '49, Circulation Manager; Richard...
...cinema critic who can also lay claim to being a first-class moviemaker is a blue-eyed, Milquetoast-mustached Scot named John Grierson. At 48, John Grierson might well call himself the father of the documentary. A minor proof of paternity: he was the first to call the fact film a "documentary." As a documentary-maker for the British Government (1927-39), he trained most of that country's current crop of experts. During the war, he bossed Canada's wartime National Film Board and turned out the excellent series of shorts called World in Action and Canada...
...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...ring been tried in Bad Nauheim instead of Nürnberg he probably would have been given an official reprimand, fined 500 marks and given the option of letting Justice Jackson off scot-free or prosecuting him for maliciously instigating his trial...
...substantive matter requiring a two-thirds vote, McNeil's pawky accent cut the smoke. "How can the voting procedure be substantive when, by very definition, the Rules Committee is only qualified to deal with procedural matters?" he snapped. Then, for about ten minutes, the young (36) Scot assailed the Russian position, with such impolite epithets as "baffling," "bewildering," "illogical," "absolute nonsense...