Word: scouting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Thomas Bertram Costain, 80, prolific author of bestselling historical novels (The Silver Chalice) and some straight popular histories, who made his career as an editor of Canada's Maclean's magazine and the Saturday Evening Post and as a story scout for 20th Century-Fox until at 55 he decided, "If I was ever going to write, I'd better start right away," produced 20 readable yet scholarly works that have sold some 15 million copies since 1942 and resulted in several movie epics; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...hero, by contrast, comes off remarkably well. He is a "rich, rich writer," an "incomparable" reporter, an elephant hunter who makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...
...ceasefire. With a unanimous Security Council vote behind him, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant hurried off to the Indian sub continent, where his homilies were greeted with outright scorn. After two days of fruitless meetings in Rawalpindi, a Pakistani official said: "Thant's visit is like a Boy Scout blowing his whistle, tweet, tweet, and telling us to be good. We have been good long enough." And for all its years of lip service to the U.N. and world peace, the Indian government was hardly more receptive to Thant's proposals...
Before it canceled, Waldbaum's carefully surveyed customer preference; it says that only 4% definitely wanted stamps. Grocers in general have discovered that shoppers are more sophisticated and more mobile than they were a generation ago; housewives now scout all food prices, use their cars and convenient parking facilities to move from store to store for selected items. Many housewives who formerly shopped only at one supermarket now divide their weekly grocery budgets among several. Like the earlier competitive advantages of newer stores, broader product variety or better parking, trading stamps have ceased to be a decisive lure. This...
...Valley National of Glendale, Calif.), his "dozens" of oil wells, his stock portfolio, and his six-story office building in Glendale. He was still on the Mets's payroll as the club's "West Coast vice president"-or, in Stengel's words, "the highest-priced scout you've ever seen." Coach Wes Westrum would manage the team for the rest of 1965. After that-well, the Mets are accustomed to losing ball games, but it will take them a while to get adjusted to losing Casey...