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...your columns I have noticed some discussions recently of the Rotary Club [TIME, June 6, 20] and Optimist International [TIME, July 18] but I failed to find anything respecting the convention of the Lions International at Miami, June...
Bringing bathing beauties from Hollywood, thirsts from Kentucky, boasts from Chicago, members of Optimist International poured into Denver, Col., last week for their ninth annual convention. Denverites put on cowboy and Indian costumes, fired blank cartridges, stuck up welcoming signs...
...Optimist International is a glad-hand organization of "big brothers" (grown men) devoted informally to grinning horseplay, formally to welfare work among boys. It is called "International" because some members live in Canada...
...Denver is the Super-Optimist, I'll tell the world. . . . Denver is ten miles high in hospitality. You can't tell me it is only 5,280 feet above sea level."?Thomas B. Elliott of St. Louis, international secretary-treasurer...
...great to be an Optimist. I travel all over America and in every city where there is an Optimist club I am made a guest of honor. I never get unpacked in my hotel until the telephone begins to ring and the invitations come pouring in. Am I hungry? Am I tired? Am I thirsty? Am I in need of anything? Do I want an automobile? Will I come to a banquet? Will I take a drive about the city? Every Optimist is ready and eager to serve the stranger in a strange city."?George O. Griffin...