Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your tribute to the late Ernest Thompson Seton [TIME, Nov. 4], it seems to me you go a little beyond reason when you give him credit for having started the Boy Scout movement, apparently on the assumption that every good movement must have commenced in the United States. It is a matter of history that the Boy Scout movement was organized in Britain, by the late Lord Baden-Powell...
...history. Result of a week's hunting: one 400-lb. black bear, one 90-lb. cub, one wolf, 50 porcupine quills in one of the dogs. The Bemidji Chamber of Commerce gave the visiting hunters a bear-steak dinner, slyly provided them with sleeping quarters in a Boy Scout camp...
...stepping, swivelhipped, well-padded blond drum majorette was far and away the best player of the afternoon . . . Just like old times when the Crimson band started in on the famous "Wintergreen" medley before the opening kick off . . . When the huge first "T" was formed by the band a Princeton scout was seen to note: "unbalanced T to the right." He closed his book and slunk away. Apre lui le deluge...
...their burned clearing the first rescue party and the survivors, chilled by cold and rain, waited for the helicopters. Ruth Henderson, a New York Girl Scout executive, gave banjo imitations. Stewardess Jeanne Rook hobbled about, passing out medicines. For New York songwriter Rudy Revil, weeping over his badly burned hands, soldiers raked through the wreckage till they found his latest composition...
Last week Godfrey made a bold bid to conclude his "real deal." His first evening show, Talent Scout, had proved just about top in the summer replacements; so Godfrey persuaded CBS to give it this fall one of the most uneasy seats in radio: Tuesday, 10 p.m., E.D.S.T., opposite Bob Hope...