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BADEN-POWELL STAMPS bicycle-mounted field messengers, the prototype of the subsequent Boy Scout. The appearance of a subject's portrait on an officially recognized postage stamp reportedly shocked Queen Victoria to the whalebones; she deemed it highly improper that any but the ruling sovereign's likeness should appear on any postage stamp within the British Empire...
Even at this distance in time, to say anything less than laudatory about the founder of the Boy Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...
...world's first Boy Scout, who won his original fame for his defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, turns out to have been a very shrewd operator indeed. At a time when one bemedaled British generalissimo after another was getting his cavalry pants shot oft by those hairy, puritan Dutch farmers in South Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save...
...toughest slums, near the city's docks and up a narrow alley past teeming soup stalls, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Brenden of Minneapolis operate a center for teaching sewing and other skills to teen-age girls, a day nursery for children of working mothers, a Boy Scout troop among urchins. The Brendens, both Lutherans, arrived in Saigon last year under the auspices of Viet Nam Christian Service, a relief agency jointly sponsored by Lutheran World Relief, Church World Service, and Mennonites. The couple symbolizes the largely unsung efforts by U.S. churches to respond-as they have done...
HONDO (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Hondo Lane (Ralph Taeger) is a tough Army scout in this show based on the old (1953) John Wayne movie of the same name. Premiere...