Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some sort of standardization for exhibitors is a problem. Exhibitors were invited to Manhattan last week to meet the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers to hash the matter over. At the moment, each system has its enthusiastic rooter. Fox's Spyros P. Kouras, flying off to scout the 3-D foreign field, predicted that by next October some 2,500 theaters across the country will be equipped for Cinemascope...
Lord Baden-Powell, 39, whose father founded the Boy Scout movement, was promoted to the rank of police sergeant in the London special constabulary...
...Eisenhower heard about the little-known Humphrey from his chief talent scout, General Lucius Clay. Clay first spotted Humphrey during World War II while Humphrey was serving with quiet effectiveness on the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory Council. Clay saw Humphrey again in postwar Germany; Clay was in command of the U.S. occupation zone, and Humphrey was making a survey of German industry for ECA's Paul Hoffman. Clay knew Humphrey only slightly-and still does-but he was impressed by the rare combination of "forward-looking imaginativeness" and "complete normalcy...
Aided by the passage of time, the steady drumfire of Communist propaganda had done much to becloud the facts of the Rosenberg case. In the summer of 1950, the FBI had arrested Julius Rosenberg, a sallow, bespectacled engineer, on the charge that he had acted as paymaster and talent scout for a spy ring which, during and after World War II, delivered to Russia U.S. military secrets of supreme importance. His wife Ethel was accused of aiding...
...graduate student of chemistry, and has been a great help. Being scientifically trained, she raised no objection at all when he started his work on sex, and sometimes she helps him in the office typing confidential documents. She teaches classes in swimming, runs the local Girl Scout camp, and loves the great outdoors...