Word: baton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young men and young women of Egypt. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, it is our task to bring our bodies into subjugation to our wills!" Straight from Boy Scouthood last week His Majesty was promoted to Field Marshal. He donned a uniform of red, white and green, grasped the baton of Field Marshal in lieu of a sceptre, and whirled off in his coach, flanked by barefoot native runners and Egyptian Royal Guardsmen who topped off their white, blue and gold uniforms with red fezzes...
...Dean, young petty officer on the cruiser Baton Rouge, was a Texas-born, square-faced, blue-eyed, accomplished sailor who liked "rough weather and lots of hell." In quieter moments he wrote for adventure magazines, read everything from Kipling to Marcus Aurelius. Coming into Bremerton Navy Yard on April 6, 1917, having known since the Baton Rouge left Mexico that war was not far off, Rex had already got himself straight about his own part in it. Uncle Sam was "Uncle Sucker." From now on you only pretended the Allies were in the right, and killed and got killed automatically...
...Navy was on the skids and that "the country'll be flooded with malted milk within ten years." On shore leave at Norfolk, thanks to the new prestige of fighting men, he spent the night with a "lovely little savage" at the home of Virginia socialites. While the Baton Rouge waited off Staten Island for a convoy of 16 freighters to be assembled, a hard-drinking pulpwood editor enabled Rex to find out about life in Greenwich Village...
...help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch guns on the Baton Rouge stopped firing. The captain's big grin marked the hits. Occasionally they picked up a few survivors from a torpedoed boat ahead. Armed guard duty, which consisted of operating a gun aboard the freighters themselves, was the riskiest job of all. So Rex transferred to that branch. When...
...where he was scheduled to appear. In honor of Patron Eckstein, Miss Bori gave her services free. Old Gennaro Papi, a longtime Ravinia favorite, postponed his European trip so he could conduct the Chicago Orchestra. After the opening night, Sir Ernest MacMillan of the Toronto Symphony took up his baton. Other conductors scheduled: Swiss Ernest Ansermet, Hans Kindler of Washington's National Symphony, Hans Lange, St. Louis' Vladimir Golschmann, Cincinnati's Fritz Reiner. On July 17 at Ravinia, Mischa Mischakoff, recently made concertmaster of the NBC Orchestra (TIME, May 10), will play his last for Chicago...