Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During his first two seasons, the musicians treated the stocky (178 Ibs., 5 ft. 10½ in.) new conductor as a kind of musical Boy Scout, frequently were noisy in rehearsals and harried him with unimportant questions. But this year they defer to his authority with respectful silence, pass their questions up through the concertmaster. Shaw, at home with the instruments as never before, is using a baton for the first time. "I'm beginning to feel the orchestra in my fingers now," he said last week. "My fingers taste the sound; my ears taste the sound...
...from Dallas to report this week's cover story on August Anheuser Busch Jr., he had a chance to watch the Cards' workout from the bench, courtesy of Owner Busch. While there, a front-office man told him that the Cards had in their files an old scout report on him. It said: fast but wild; watch. Frank finished college at the University of Nevada ('41), worked as a reporter for the United Press, and joined the Marines to fight in World...
...story was an attempt to conjure up the spirit of the men who left their homes to join the Lincoln Brigade and fight Franco. I don't think the deep and unseeing idealism of these men quite comes through; Buechler's main character seems more like a burbling Scout Master than someone who could have fought side-by-side with Orwell in Catalonia...
...Mortars started up again, but the Binh Xuyen fire was inaccurate. Nationalist reinforcements-a battalion of paratroops-moved expertly, strung out in single files along the boulevard, using the picturesque trees for cover. Scout cars zigzagged towards Binh Xuyen bunkers, slamming at them with 37-mm. cannon fire. Sirens howled. Telephones jangled. A baby wailed. A scout car was hit, its machine gunner twisted dead out of the hatch, and it came screaming back out of the battle in reverse. Yet for all the commotion and concussion, the young Vietnamese Nationalists were calm. Just as one terrorist shell exploded...
...sure the Lampoon does not wish its initiates to show up in such a bad light. It is obvious that they have just run out of creative ideas. Perhaps they might look in a boy scout handbook-many young groups have great fun at boy scout games. The other members of this University certainly ought to cooperate, to help these "fools" find some more satisfying means of relieving their frustration. It would seem that such talent could find a more truly humorous outlet; it really does not have to sink to the level to simply annoying professors. Jeffray Kramer...