Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geraldine Farrar composed, directed and designed costumes for a Girl Scout Christmas pageant at Ridgefield, Conn. She also wrote a poem, The Christmas Donkey, led the singing of the national anthem...
...Brown properties like Poet Emily Dickinson, Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (whose Ramona was the dernier cri of the '80s), Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like Mazo de la Roche's Jama novels (a practically interminable property), Walter D. Edmonds' Drums Along the Mohawk, etc., Nordhoff and Hall's Bounty trilogy. Last week this agreement was amplified and extended for 50 years-a gauge, the contractors...
Track experts consider MacMitchell the most promising runner ever developed in the U.S. Having an extraordinarily low pulse of 38 (72 is normal), relentless perseverance, perfect mental attitude and Boy-Scout living habits, he has run within two seconds of every world's record for half a dozen distances, from 440 yards to 1,500 meters. At a mile, he has already tied Glenn Cunningham's recognized indoor world's record...
...Scout. At Camp Robinson, Ark., Private Henry Placke was discovered to have joined a local Boy Scout troop, earned ten merit badges, qualified as an Eagle Scout. The Army discharged under-age Private Placke...
...Yarnell, U.S.N. (retired). Arguing his case in Collier's last week, Admiral Yarnell told a horrendous tale of manslaughter committed by the R.A.F. and the Italian Air Force (both independent) through ignorance of military and naval matters. Excerpts: > "Forty-eight hours before the Germans actually invaded Norway, R.A.F. scout planes saw transport ships churning through the North Sea. Only mildly interested in the phenomenon, they reported it through routine channels. . . . Had the pilots been wise in naval matters, wise enough to understand what they saw, England would have known two days earlier of the German movement...