Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Harlow sent Wes Fesler and Lyal Clark to scout Army last Saturday against Columbia, and both returned with stern warnings about the shiftiness and pass-throwing ability of Woodrow and southpaw Huey. The Cadets' best play, their "three-point" fake pass, was largely responsible for their first-half drubbing of Columbia, according to these scouts...
...spectators at Longwood was 20-year-old Robert Riggs, Los Angeles minister's son, who within two years has zoomed from nowhere to second ranking U. S. tennist. He had passed up the Newport tournament, last major tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...
Among the 125 applicants, 27 survived moral examination. Schoolboy Welliver was chosen because he was the best actor of this stainless group. His specifications : 5 ft. 10 in. tall, 148 lb., blue eyes, brown hair, a Boy Scout patrol leader...
Fresh from his war coverage in Leftist Spain quiet, hard-working Vincent Sheean, Left-wing author & correspondent, fortnight ago hurried to Vienna to scout reports of disaffection against the four-month-old Nazi regime. In a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily summed up his investigations. "The impression made by ten days of observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain...
...veteran Boy Scout leader and Cambridge School Committee members stressed the need for organized play and for trained sociologists and psychiatrists in preventing crime and juvenile delinquency...