Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Phillies beat out 12 other big-league clubs in a scramble to sign up another whiz kid. In Thomaston, Ga., where 19-year-old strike-out artist Hugh Radcliffe (TIME, May 10) was pitching his last high-school game, a Philadelphia scout shelled out $40,000 to persuade Radcliffe to become a Philly...
...wind chill," Claxton had learned, as much as the cold, that gets men down in the north. On a scale worked out by Dr. Paul Siple (Eagle Scout of the Byrd 1928 expedition), flesh freezes at a wind chill of 1,400. This may be at 20 above zero, if there is a 20-mile wind, or 40 below with a one-mile wind. Last winter, survivors told Claxton, Churchill's wind chill was greater than 1,400 most of the time, and once...
...Seattle, a Silver Buffalo-highest award in U.S. Scouting-was presented to Songwriter Irving Berlin at the annual banquet of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The banqueters were entertained by a group of high-school singers, who for half an hour sang popular songs, all of them by Songwriter Jerome Kern. At a Manhattan Scout-o-Rama, the Cubs honored Margaret Truman with their "Grand Howl." Replied Margaret...
Died. James Edward West, 71, longtime Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (1911-43); of an intestinal disease; in New Rochelle, N.Y. An orphan lamed by tuberculosis, he was a veteran in social work and child-welfare reform when he took over the Scouts. Its membership was then 61,495 ; he helped build it to some...
Although he helped Valpey with Spring practice, Boston said that he definitely would not scout Harvard for the October 16 Army game, as that is a "matter of coaching ethics." "What information I picked up at Spring practice will not be compromised." He added that Blaik had agreed, pointing out that Army has played the Michigan system twice anyway...