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...National Jamboree in Washington (TIME, July 12), spent their happiest hours swapping horned toads, pickled scorpions, live hoot owls-everything but puppy dog tails. The first international encampment in the U. S. of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides -only 101 strong-convened last week in a grove near Briarcliff Manor, about 35 miles north of Manhattan, but again the primeval urge made itself felt. Their barter, however, consisted of more appropriate articles, cotton bolls from South Carolina, scarves, tubes of powdered iron ore from Minnesota. Scout Sally Page of El Paso appeared with trade goods consisting of $2,000 worth...
...group called Mystery of Life, at its top an 87-ft. Tower of Legends. Over the threats and legal objections of California morticians, Forest Lawn was the first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with a Memorial Court of Honor, Memorial Terrace, Sanctuaries of Meditation, Vespers, Benediction, Trust and Truth. For Jean Harlow, William Powell chose...
...Walter Beaver, Berwyn, Pa. electrician: the 32nd annual American clay target championship at singles; with 198 birds out of a possible 200. to 197 for Tracy Lewis of New York; on an overcast afternoon in an east wind that made the targets dip and soar: at Pelham Manor, N. Y. ¶ The New York Giants. 4-to-1: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in which famed left-handed Pitcher Carl Hubbell tied the modern major-league record of 20 consecutive League victories established by left-handed Giant Pitcher Rube Marquard in 1911 and 1912; in New York...
...dinner the conversation was as varied as the conversants. Shirley Temple and the Supreme Court; "Last Year's Kisses" and Professor So-and-So; the tax on undistributed corporate earnings and the virtues of Pine Manor; all met in mid-air with remarkable harmony...
Duke Oliver, the colored maestro, is returning with his Rhythm Manor Orchestra, and the Deacons will dance from 10 o'clock until two in the Junior Common Room and the Dining Room, which will be decorated in the Yuletide spirit. An ample supply of mistletoe is being laid in, and a midnight supper is planned for the intermission...