Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pinnacle. In New London, Conn., Navy Commander Eugene B. Fluckey (Congressional Medal of Honor, Navy Cross with three gold stars, two unit citations) earned the necessary merit badges, at 34, to become an Eagle Scout...
...Call You Sweetheart. Author St. John traveled through Titoland with a "change of clothes ... a Boy Scout knife, six cans of DDT, a pencil sharpener, and a considerable quantity of paper." He also took along an interpreter-a Russian-born American girl whose "small, vibrant figure" quivered with eagerness "to answer . . . the riddles of the New Yugoslavia...
...bulk of Dick Harlow's information on the New Haven team, however, has been gathered by a scout relatively unknown to followers of the Crimson--Bobby Bell--a Bowdoin football captain before the war and a present native of Everett. Bell has been watching the men in blue since the season began...
...quarterback of the late 30's has for the last two years held sway as the spirited and successful coach of the Junior Varsity football team. Now one of Harlow's senior lieutenants, Chief Boston is a sizeable cog in the Crimson athletic picture--operating at jobs as scout and head wrestling coach besides at his weekday Jayvee command...
...tons for San Francisco. Despite the adoption of such expensive devices as sonar to locate the schools of fish last year's catches slumped even more. Bitter rivals in normal times, the canners banded together, hired a plane and got the Coast Guard to lend another to scout offshore for sardines. By last week, at what is usually the peak of the season, Monterey had brought in only 9,700 tons, hardly enough to keep its canneries busy for a day. And the shortage had hiked the price of sardines from...