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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makers) but also an Eccles trailer-caravan, a painting of himself and a cheque for ?2,750. All gifts were made possible by international Scout contributions of one penny each. TIME omitted: Absence of Italian Scouts, dissolved by Mussolini. Yorker - Presence America's oldest Boy Scout, a New Yorker - E. K. Pietsch, 71, 18 years a Scout, who has always refused promotion. He was accompanied by his wife, 70. ... In reference to review of The Dance of Life, TIME, Sept. 2, p. 64, Paramount crossed the palm of Havelock Ellis with a cheque...
Born in Woodstock, Ill., stocky, dynamic Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...
...check room boy in a Manhattan hotel sufficient fees will be loaned so that he may continue an education already advanced despite the difficulty of working 63 hours a week...
Last month, along with 48 other selected "bright boys," one Charles H. Brunissen of West Redding, Conn., went to West Orange, N. J., and answered the long lists of questions whereby Thomas Alva Edison, aided by the U. S. press, sought to find the most eligible young man in the U. S. to become his understudy (TIME, Aug. 12). After answering Mr. Edison's questions, Charles Brunissen said he thought many of them were "senseless, idiotic." Then he learned that though he had not won the contest, with its prize of a four-year scholarship at Massachusetts Institute...
...Stevenson of El Paso, Tex., both tuition and board at M. I. T., where he had really wanted to go. Said he: "It would be foolish of me to refuse. . . . I shall notify the Edison Co. to that effect. . . ." Thus it came to pass that the Brightest Boy in the U. S.- Wilber Brotherton Huston of Olympia, Wash., winner of the Edison contest-will have as his classmate and scholarly competitor one of the Second Brightest Boys. When they emerge from M. I. T. four years hence (if both are graduated), the marks of Students Huston and Brunissen will certainly...