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...nationally-advertised trade mark of an Empire gasoline called "British Petrol." Also "B. P." is what Boy Scouts the world over call their jovial, snowy-whiskered Chief Scout, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell. Last week the 50,000 Scouts who have been attending an international "jamboree" (Scoutese for convention) at Birkenhead, England (TIME, Aug. 12) broke camp and prepared to disperse to their homes in 50 nations with a message from...
Nearby sat Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 72, founder of all Scouts. Chuckling, he remarked: "Some famous journalist said we would all be battling if we attempted to bring together so many different nationalities. Yet here we are, happy, ready and tolerant...
Young Germany sees the U. S. singing. Composer Ernst Krenek chose a U. S. Negro jazzer for his Jonny Spielt Auf. Another modernist, Kurt Weill, has found inspiration for a new cantata in the Lindbergh flight. Written for the July Festival in Baden-Baden, a drowsy watering place in the Black Forest which has found itself the seat of radical musical experiment, the composer also intends The Lindbergh Flight for radio consumption. The cantata was publicly described last week for the first time...
Queen Victoria of Sweden who is generally indisposed and keeps to her hotel on the Riviera, received last week an island in the Swiss Lake Constance from her late brother. Prince Max of Baden, onetime Imperial Chancellor to Wilhelm II of Germany, and first to announce his abdication...
...lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth of the charge or the likelihood of fraud. But the successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another...