Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advance Scout. In Indianapolis, Harley J. Driskell got 60 days in jail and a $77.75 fine after he sat in his car off a highway, held up a sign that warned passing motorists of a radar speed trap ahead, ran into a cop who approached to flush him from his post...
...affraid, Harry," Manager Graham told Coach Coldstone, "that you'll have to go into action as a scout next week. Them clowns down there are anemic bums. They've got no meat on their bones. Some way you've got to figure out a way to shanghai some reinforcements. Forget the expense. If we don't manage that, we won't get any decent opponents; that means no spectators either, and our racket is finished. I understand there are a few more bruisers in Wisconsion (sic). You bring them here. The cost plays no part...
Surprise will not only toss around nearly twice as much money as Question; it also promises to be at least twice as complicated. Containing elements of Talent Scouts, telephone quizzes, and the bygone "Miss Hush" mysteries of radio's Truth and Consequences, Surprise will ask viewers to supply the name of someone who is about to receive a surprise-a promotion, a plaque, a reunion with relatives, in fact, anything at all. The "surprise" will then be shown on the program, and that clears the way for one of those concerned-either the surprisee, the talent scout, or some...
...plagued by his Italo-Americanism. When Racketeer Frank Costello (born Castiglia) casually told the Kefauver committee that he knew De Sapio "very well," the public assumed the worst. After all, weren't both men Italians? "What do I have to do?" asks De Sapio. "Send a special scout ahead all day everywhere I go to case a joint before I step inside? About a week ago, I was having lunch with some friends at one of the best restaurants in town.† We're all having a pleasant time, when suddenly someone comes up and tells me Costello...
...connoisseur of art with the same care that another man might give to preparation for brain surgery or nuclear physics. Dürer's engraving of Knight, Death and Devil hung over his crib, he recalls, and "I was a wood carver before I was a Boy Scout. At nine, I took a course in arms and armor. I got two years off from prep school to visit the art centers of Europe...