Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thurber Album has some fine stuff about his city editor on the Columbus Dispatch. He disliked college men, contemptuously called Thurber "Phi Beta Kappa" (which he was), and could intone it "so that it sounded like a Girl Scout's merit badge." He came to like Thurber, but he never liked fancy writing, which he always greeted with "This story is in bloom!" Other good men well remembered are Cartoonist Billy Ireland (a man so kind he once complimented a friend's wife with "Edna, that's the prettiest washing out there I ever saw"), several profs...
...exact quantities of military supplies sent to Yugoslavia remain a military secret, but Harmony said that 30% of the military equipment allocated for the fiscal year 1950-51, and a slightly smaller percentage for 1951-52, had been delivered. Specific items included: fighter planes, tanks, armored and scout cars, antitank and antiaircraft guns...
...Lodge Jr. introduced ex-ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman as the full-time adviser of the Citizens for Eisenhower committee. Hoffman, just back from a visit with Ike at SHAPE, will take a leave from the presidency of the Ford Foundation to work as principal salesman, idea man and talent scout of the Ike campaign...
Yardling coach Floyd Wilson, who accompanied Shepard to scout Yale, named his customary first five for the game with the Tufts freshmen at 6:45 p.m. tonight...
...Your motion picture editor has made an observation which cannot pass unchallenged. The excellent Jan. 28 review of Room for One More [refers to] the conducting of an Eagle Scout badge-award ceremony with "the solemnity of a coronation" . . . The pomp and circumstance connected with such an award is not designed to impress cynical and worldly-wise adults, but, rather, is centered on the boy himself. The award of Eagle rank is the highest honor that scouting can bestow . . . Parents may prod, and leaders may coax, but the boy himself must do the work . . . After a formidable array of obstacles...