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...Scouts of 37 nations, going to the Fourth World Jamboree of 30,000 Scouts in the former Royal Hunting Preserves 17 miles from Budapest. On one of the steamers, completely unnoticed by 100 U. S. Scouts keen at spotting the peculiarities of birds, trees and beetles, was an elderly Briton. The old man in mufti who kept the secret of his incognito was "B.-P.," beloved Lieut.-General Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 76, founder of the Boy Scouts in 1908 and Chief Scout of the World. When he stepped spryly off the steamer, hailed by Hungarian Scouts...
...Great Britain's largest fortune (circa $140,000,000); in Dieppe, France. To his vast shipping enterprises he added real estate and publishing, at one time owned a string of newspapers and smartcharts, including London's Sphere, Sketch, Tatler. Hardly more than a name to the average Briton, he shunned publicity and public places, shooed away photographers, lived in a simplicity suggesting stinginess, occupied but one inch of space in Who's Who. He stealthily gave fat sums to charity, was irked when newshawks got wind of his donations...
...pale nervous Briton with a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard and a twisted hip hobbled forward to the witness stand. Again the clerk's voice droned on-carrying on military espionage under orders from his colleague, W. H. Thornton. . . . Helping wreck a power plant at the Zlatoust munitions factory. . . . Bribing Soviet citizens. ... At the end came the question, "Do you admit these charges...
Thomas Wentworth Russell may be an ardent and efficient dope sleuth. He is also a tactful Briton. Nowhere in his report did he mention India or Britain...
...Rustless Iron Corp. of America of which he is chairman and chief backer, and this time he won a clear victory. Rustless Iron was launched in 1926 to exploit the U. S. rights to a simple process for making stainless steel, developed by a fat, genial Briton from Sheffield named Ronald Wild. The Wild process combines chromium and steel in one step where other processes take three steps. Shortly before Metallurgist Wild retired because of poor health in 1931, Charlie Payson became visible in the light of fireworks in Rustless Iron stock...