Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago three freighters, crammed with 60-odd fighting planes for Britain and France, cast off from the Bollards at San Pedro, Calif., and stood out past Point Fermin to sea. Before they passed Catalina two Canadian destroyers steamed up with bones in their teeth, slowed to freighter's pace, headed south in convoy toward the Panama Canal...
...eyed, weather-resistant Grand Old Man of the Boy Scouts. Yet his autobiography gives only eleven pages to his career as founder and National Commissioner of the Boy Scouts. Apparently "Uncle" Dan thinks his 30 years of Scouting is altogether too well known-it "seems to have wiped my past history off the slate," he complains. His picturesque record of a Vanishing American, written with a sort of grizzled spryness, covers his first 60 years, before he joined the Boy Scouts...
...famed portrait painter, James H. Beard, Dan spent his boyhood in Cincinnati and Covington, Ky., was nicknamed "Buffalo" because of his infant virility. In those days pigs still cleaned the Cincinnati streets; Conestoga wagons still lumbered past the house on their way West; downriver pilots still swaggered on the levee. Danny fought the "river rats," dug for gold in the backyard, had a backyard menagerie of crows, squirrels, snakes. Once Lincoln smiled at him as he ran alongside the President's open barouche...
Appointed last May to be the successor of Archibald MacLeish an Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism, Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Fellow from the Boston Globe last year, launched the 1939-40 season of the Fellowships during the past weekend with a series of dinner meetings and personal conferences with the 12 newspapermen chosen by the University to be Nieman Follows for the coming year...
...volume increase in the number of books circulated by Widener Library for the past year was announced Saturday by Library officials...