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...Last Word produced the rarest sound on TV: the crackle of civilized talk. When the panel considered the difference between genius and talent, Brown handily paraphrased James Russell Lowell ("Talent is what a man possesses. Genius is what possesses a man"), and added: "You speak of a talent scout, on the assumption that talent can be found, but I have never heard of a genius scout, even on Madison Avenue." Unable to agree on whether hey liked the editorial "we," the panelists agreed that what Evans called the "hospital 'we' or the emetic...
Watching Aaron that night was a scout from the Milwaukee Braves who soon signed him up. Aaron went up through the Braves' farm system, in 1954 got his big chance when Outfielder Bobby Thomson broke his ankle in spring training. Last year, lashing out at any bad pitch that caught his fancy, Aaron won the league batting championship with a .328 average, led both major leagues with 200 hits...
Today, under Chief Scout Executive Arthur A. Schuck, 62, a Scout careerman, U.S. membership is over 4,500,000. The long pull from Tenderfoot to Eagle now involves programs in electronics, mechanics and TV repair and a course in atomic energy will soon be added. But for all the changes in the official Boy Scout Handbook for Boys, the basic aims of the movement are still those stated by Baden-Powell: "To help in making the rising generation, of whatever class or creed, into good citizens...
...should do it for me." By the following day, after six more glasses of port, the doctor's mind was made up. "We must kill her," he said. Without a word, Simone Deschamps rose from her chair, went to the local hardware store and bought a Boy Scout knife...
Died. Paul Bernard Krichell, 74, chief scout for 37 years for the New York Yankees, credited with discovering more baseball talent than any other man in history (he signed some 200 players including Lou Gehrig, Leo Durocher, Vic Raschi, Red Rolfe, Phil Rizzuto, Tony Lazzeri); after long illness; in New York City...