Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chatty potboiler in the tradition of most Wodehouse works. Its setting is the familiar English hamlet of Steeple Bumpleigh; its characters include such Wodehouse fixtures as crocodile-toothed Lord Worplesdon ("he had got that way through presiding at board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been dragged through a hedge backwards"), G. D'Arcy ("Stilton") Cheesewright ("a bloke of furtive aspect"), and Lady Florence Craye ("one of those...
...homesteaders, and inadvertently admitted to doing in a 13-year-old boy. He himself was about 14 when he ran away from his father's Missouri farm in 1875. For the next couple of decades he bummed around the West, punching cattle, working on the railroad, acting as scout-interpreter for General George Crook and General Nelson A. Miles when they were chasing the Apache terror, Geronimo, up & down the Southwest. Finally, he developed into a "range detective" and special handyman for big Colorado-Wyoming cattlemen. His specialty was dirty jobs...
...intimate knowledge of Washington whimsy. In the case of the men behind the bomb, such a study would only give the diagrammatic relation of man to man and department to subdivision. It would not, for instance, lend itself to an accurate appraisal of Conant's utility as talent scout and supervisor of this talent in the wide area taken in by the Manhattan District, a function on which Conant places much emphasis...
...houses was Killenworth, a million dollars in stone and granite, Tudor style, with 39 paneled rooms, 13 baths, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold Killenworth...
...fact that the Johnny-come-latelys got the same equipment annoyed the big lines only for a while. Last week, Panair do Brasil, Pan American's local subsidiary and the first non-U.S. company to get a Constellation, flew one from Rio to Casablanca to scout a route to London and Paris for the first Brazilian overseas airline. But Panair President Paulo Sampaio had only a brief headstart on Cruzeiro, whose DC-4s will be flying the Atlantic before summer...