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Died. Ilona Massey, 62, golden-haired, Budapest-born actress and songstress; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Massey worked her way from seamstress to chorus girl to operatic leads in Vienna, where at 25 she was signed by an MGM talent scout. In 1939 she played a sultry Russian singer as Nelson Eddy's co-star in the Hollywood musical Balalaika, later cut up on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies (1943-44) and fooled with the Marx Brothers in Love Happy...
Mustered out at 32 with the rank of lieutenant commander, he returned to Grand Rapids to practice law. He also joined almost every organization available: the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Masons, the Elks. He was especially proud of his status as an ex officio Boy Scout (later he would boast: "I am the first Eagle Scout Vice President"). He made no secret of the fact that he wanted to go to Congress. In 1948 he was given his chance. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, grand old man of the G.O.P., had made a dramatic switch from isolationism...
Scandal has spread to that bastion of model morality, the Boy Scouts of America. Last week the organization acknowledged that leaders in at least ten local councils had ignored the Scout oath to be "mentally awake and morally straight," and padded their membership rolls with tentfuls of nonexistent boys...
...supposed to increase membership by 2 million boys, to a total of 6.5 million by the time of the U.S. Bicentennial. But some of the organization's 4,600 full-timeprofessionals soon found their quotas unattainable. Apparently fearing for their jobs, they signed up thousands of fictitious scouts, in some cases even paying the registration fees. Scout officials have already resigned or been fired in Chicago, Detroit and Tulsa, Okla., and the investigation is continuing. Says Detroit Area Council Director Joseph Wyckoff: "When you try to teach youngsters integrity and trustworthiness, it's inconceivable to have professionals...
Upstages Headliners. "They all think I'm a freak," says Maggie. But despite the gypsy fortune-teller exterior, Scotland's princess of wails is about as funky as a Girl Scout. Music is her life, Maggie maintains, although she does not disdain the idea of marriage. She cannot pass a child without smiling, and youngsters in return respond to Bell's fresh-faced charm. "The high point of my career," she reflects gravely, "was when I came to the U.S. and found that Americans are allowing single people to adopt babies...