Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortitude and dedication of a Brigham Young. Benson is a big (6 ft., 220 Ibs.), open-faced 53-year-old who looks younger, has the ruddy complexion of one who has spent years in the fields (which he has) and the hearty smile and firm handshake of a Boy Scout leader (which he is). He adheres to the old-fashioned philosophy that God helps those who help themselves. Benson quotes the Bible to show how he applies this dictum to farming. Not through Government handouts, says he, but "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Benson believes...
...starring with Bert Lytell in The Second Man when she was spotted by a scout for Universal Pictures. He dangled a Hollywood offer before her, but Ros sat down to read all the fine print and suggested a few hardheaded revisions. They finally settled on giving her an expenses-paid trip to the West Coast and a flat fee of $100 for each screen test...
...collections. "It has been a question of encouraging people," says Chillman, "not forcing them by saying 'You'd better like this.' " Dividing his time between his museum work and teaching architecture at nearby Rice Institute, Chillman over the years laid out art courses for Girl Scout leaders and public school teachers, gave youngsters guided tours of the museum. Houston heard Chillman talk about art over the radio, saw the museum's masterpieces...
Rash Venture. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Store Executive Charles DeMore good-naturedly helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...
...order to contrast with Shakespearean production techniques, O'Neil and director Ian Cadenhead '53 travelled 2000 miles to scout presentations of "Othello" in Cleveland and Princeton. The Dramatic Club production of the play, O'Neil said, will be a "hybrid" of the Princeton and Cleveland versions...