Word: scott
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...Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 33, Navy lieutenant, 160 lbs., 5 ft. 10½ in., green eyes, brown hair. Episcopalian. Born: Boulder, Colo.; graduated University of Colorado, '49 (aeronautical engineering). Scott Carpenter went back into the Navy in 1949 to complete flight training interrupted at World War II's end, logged part of his 2,800 flight hours (300 in jets) in Korean combat (aerial mining, antisub patrols), then went through Navy Test Pilot School, General Line School, Air Intelligence School, became air intelligence officer of the carrier Hornet. He recalls: "When I was notified that I was being considered...
...fruits of a collaboration between Beethoven and a Scottish office clerk named George Thomson, who made a hobby of collecting folk music. To render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy titles as Faithful Johnie and The Lovely Lass of Inverness. All the tunes have a willowy charm, and occasional instrumental passages...
...brand-new vicar of Gidleigh, Devonshire, 65-year-old former Navy Captain John Mortimer Scott, feels that he is well prepared for his career. "I often think people who go straight through the university and into the church haven't seen enough of the world. I found in the navy that a commanding officer is a sort of welfare officer, and once men trust you they will ask you for advice on all sorts of problems...
World Congress of Flight (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A symposium on man's battle to get as far off the ground as he can, conducted by NATO's General Lauris Norstad, Physicist Edward Teller, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield...
Although only six singles and three doubles count for Eastern Intercollegiate League standings, the two teams played an additional five singles and two doubles, with the varsity sweeping all seven unofficial matches. Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt, Pete Smith, Scott Custer and Langden Smith posted singles victories, all in straight sets, while the doubles teams of Pratt-Cameron and Langden Smith and Custer swept their matches against fairly weak opposition...