Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour later Ghioris again went ahead, presumably to scout. This time there was no reassuring sound of stones. Instead, the night burst into flame and thunder as rifles and machine guns blasted into the party from three directions. The shepherd had led them into an ambush. Flares arched overhead while tracers and steel slugs slammed against rocks, whining off into the night. Thomas heard the screams of the women, and once by the light of flares caught a glimpse of moaning clumps on the ground...
Maryland McCormick, wife of the Chicago Tribune's Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick and writer of a weekly column for the Trib and Washington's Post and Times-Herald, had what seemed like a stroke of bad luck. Laid up with bronchitis, she could not get around to scout up subjects for her column, passed the time talking to her upstairs maid, who has worked in the household for more than 30 years. The result was a lively column about Prime Minister Churchill, when he was the house guest of Anglophobe Colonel McCormick 25 years...
...York Yankees, often accused of buying up all the best ballplayers, tried a new talent-grabbing trick. Yankee scouts spotted Billy Joe Moore, 24, playing first base for the Oklahoma State Prison team. Though Moore, doing a seven-year stretch for burglary, is not due for release until next year, the Yanks talked the warden and the parole board into sending him to Grand Forks, N. Dak. to play minor league ball. If Moore stays out of trouble, said Yankee Scout Tom Greenwade (discoverer of Mickey Mantle), by next year he'll be playing Triple A ball...
Backfire. In Pasadena, Calif., Scout Leader Kenneth Chessman admitted to police that he had set fire to Boy Scout headquarters only because he felt that his work was not appreciated by the community...
...President Dwight Robbins, an ex-diving champion who splashes boyish charm over well-heeled alumnae. "Not to have given him what he asked, they felt, would have been to mine the bridge that bears the train that carries the supply of this year's Norman Rockwell Boy Scout calendars." The dragon of the story is Gertrude Johnson, a novelist who teaches a creative-writing course. "For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren...