Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often, the film sacrifices action to authenticity; all the Indians' speeches must be translated into English, usually by a bibulous French scout (well played by Adolphe Menjou*), so that some scenes move almost as leisurely as a discussion at the U.N. But the picture fills the eye with the grandeur of its well-chosen locations and the flashing charm of Mexico's Actress Marques, who looks something like a brunette Faye Emerson. And it gains vigor now & then from the hairy-chested direction of William (The Oxbow Incident) Wellman, notably in the roisterous humor of a drunken free...
...Council also keeps its 90-odd members busy preparing, programs and speakers for Boston's civic, student, and womens' clubs. Booths are maintained at major conventions, like the Girl Scout one this fall...
...last week, after Commissioner de Raymond had eaten a heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind...
Many of the schools committees--formed by Harvard clubs all across the nation to scout out highly-qualified students, interview them, and persuade them to enroll here--date back to the thirties, but until two years ago most of them existed on paper only. Because of this, the College lost many scholars, "scholar athletes," and "scholar-leaders" to the more active Ivy League colleges like Princeton and Yale...
...intrepid team of astronomers from Indiana University who made the long trek to find out the exact location on the map of the geographical center of U.S. population [TIME, Oct. 8] might have saved the wear & tear on their seagoing sextants by consulting a member of the local Boy Scout troop...