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Still remembered is Dan Beard's American Boy's Handy Book, Or, What To Do and How To Do It, an exciting manual on kites, knot-tying, boats, trapping, taxidermy, etc., etc. Published in 1882, while Beard was attending Manhattan art school, it made Dan Beard's reputation as a boy's man which even Teddy Roosevelt could not surpass, blazed the way for his Boy Pioneers and Sons of Daniel Boone (forerunners of the Boy Scouts) started as a promotion stunt when he became editor of Recreation...
...stage in the afternoon, the Crimson trailed 7 to 3, but they ralied gamely to knot the count finally at 7-all as the Muther-Palfrey due won the third doubles engagement. Failing with match point on their Eli rivals twice in the second set, the Lyell-Peabody team was finally beaten in the third set of a dramatic match to make the score...
...that end they had the delegates elect conservative, cooperative Roland Jay Thomas to the presidency and abolish the jobs of four quarrelsome vice presidents (TIME, April 10). Last week, to the dismay of Physicians Murray & Hillman, the delegates in winding up their convention wound the poultice into a knot...
...interested in knowing how the current test (Feb. 27) cut a Gordian knot. Weighing the qualifications of several applicants for an editorial job of preparing news broadcasts we found them fairly equally matched in background, experience and ability. An essential qualification for news commentary writing, however, is a ready knowledge of current affairs. TIME arrived as the applicants cooled their heels; five minutes later they were taking the test. A half-hour later the new editorial writer was chosen-a man who can get 92 in a TIME Current Events Test is up with the news...
...everyone demonstrating psychic ability is a genuine Master, for the true Yogi displays his power only to his inner circle of students. However, the physical aspect of Yoga (rhymes with rogue) can be displayed to anyone," said Conger, tying himself into a square knot...