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Scouts not only gave Baron Baden-Powell a Rolls-Royce, which he dubbed "Jam-roll" (be cause of the jamboree and one of the 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...
Besides the members of the first two boats, which were chosen after a general shakeup on Thursday, the following personnel of the crew caravan will make the Red Top trip...
...compact style, intently modern. His characters, of middling low mentality; his incidents, grim and macabre in their humor, smacked of contacts as a newspaper reporter. This year Author Callaghan furthers his reputation by a collection of stories, one of which-far from the best-was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk who thinks he is on a street car, and demands to be let off at the corner of King and Yonge. The young priest, sliding the panel between...
...knew what she wanted−romance, and a luxurious orgy of aristocracy, after the mediocrity of Zenith; but Sam only knew that he'd like to see the land of his ancestors, inspect the Rolls Royce and Mercedes plants; then, refreshed, rush home to work at a motor caravan idea for campers, or a residential section for Zenith that should be guiltless of Tudor castles and Swiss chateaux...
...foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished the first draft on a motor caravan tour through England...