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...Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society; at West Baden...
Birthday. Daniel Carter (Dan) Beard, illustrator, author (Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance ; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles; Do It Yourself); "oldest Boy Scout," co-founder of Boy Scouts of America with Ernest Thompson Seton and Lt. -General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace...
...Scout Seton will be 70 on Aug. 14: Scout Baden-Powell...
...rigid Communist code of political morals, the editor of Youth Pravda (news-organ of the Russian organization corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention was made in Youth Pravda of the young actress...
...Korzeniowski (Conrad). No less a pundit than Herbert George Wells has said that Crane's The Open Boat is "the finest short story in the English language." Tall, lean, with very straight hair, hollow eyes, drooping mustache. Author Crane moved, smiled, spoke slowly. He died of consumption at Baden, Germany, in 1900. Other books: George's Mother, The Little Regiment, The Monster...