Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here. She got a little burned on the side." Another screamed at his wife: "Why didn't you keep her home today?" A nurse came out of a ward packed with children with burns, broken limbs, asked gently: "Is anybody looking for a little boy wearing a boy scout ring...
After every coach has been polled and every sportswriter has made his choice, there remains one man with the decisive voice. He is the pro scout. Others may nominate, but he must choose. Necessarily dispassionate, professionally unimpressed with headlines, he must assess a boy's football worth and back his judgment with money. So advised by those who decide which of Saturday's heroes will play next year for Sunday's paycheck, TIME'S choice for All-America...
...propos of Massachusetts' own, there is a story making the rounds about Kennedy's need for help from the Texas leaders. A Kennedy scout was touting his boy to a Texas politico and finished his spiel with a question: "You don't seem to care about Jack's being a Catholic...
...bubble; 17 months ago she "discovered" Lolita when she read excerpts in the Anchor Review and told an acquaintance about it. The acquaintance, now her fast friend: Walter Minton, president of Putnam's. Minton decided to publish the book, now has a major bestseller on his hands, and Scout Ridgewell has her cut (under a standing offer from Putnam's of a percentage for anyone who discovers "salable" book properties). She is getting the equivalent of 10% of author's royalties for the first year, plus 10% of the publisher's share of subsidiary rights...
...Eyeful for Auntie. Auntie got an eyeful. Army Secretary Stevens looked "about as dangerous as an eagle scout leading his first patrol." Roy Cohn "looks like a boy who has had a letter sent home from school about him, and has come back with his elders to get the thing straightened out." As for the duel between McCarthy and Army Counsel Joseph Welch, "Mr. Welch proceeds at the measured pace of the minuet, with frequent, courtly bows. Senator McCarthy favors the tarantella, moving almost faster than the human eye can follow...