Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Russell assigned the sectors-North Carolina's genial Sam Ervin, who had sat on the subcommittee hearings on the legislation, would scout the overall area; Arkansas' Bill Fulbright (the darling of Northern literary liberals) and Alabama's John Sparkman, another man of liberal repute and Adlai Stevenson's running mate in 1952, would concentrate on jury trial; Alabama's Lister Hill, a liberal in good standing with labor, would ring the alarm bells in the ranks of organized labor, which is historically opposed to the use of Federal Court injunctions in strike situations; Arkansas...
...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...
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...