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...coast of Maine, flashed a schoolteacher's certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed a Sea Scout troop, ran Sunday school at the local Baptist church with a gentle, knowing hand. At Christmastime, he rented a post-office box in the name of Santa Claus, gathered up letters from the children, wrote genial replies to each one. bought and distributed gifts for the poor. And then...
Died. Adlai Stevenson, 92 (born Bear-in-the-Water), a chief since 1895 of the Gros Ventres Indians, who adopted the name of President Grover Cleveland's second Vice President (and grandfather of last year's Democratic presidential candidate) when he became a government scout; in Stanley...
...there was more than enough talent to keep the scouts alert. Scout Steve Owen, representing the Philadelphia Eagles, watched Purdue's Len Dawson loft his soft, leading passes and murmured, "What a ball that man throws." He watched big (265 lbs.) Don Owens of little Mississippi Southern play an abso lutely immovable defensive tackle and groaned to think that Don had already been drafted by Pittsburgh. The South's Coach Paul Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, was frankly amazed at the rugged agility of Florida Guard John Barrow. No pro team had yet drafted Barrow, but there...
Would you please send me some mineral samples as I am a boy scout and need to have some...
Somehow, it all results in a happy ending, and on the way there, the reader passes a raffish gallery of secondary characters: the Ivy League gangster, Junie Neidlinger; the Boy Scout Congressman, John Kaffey; the carnival hustler, Chick Samstag (who was so cynical that "the failure of tomorrow's sunrise would not have astonished him"). But Author Norris writes with more love of buildings than of people. Rhapsodies to the 20-story "thing of beauty" created by Jeff Hanes run murmurously through the book, and the Tower, though defaced by the years and its occupants, never becomes as caitiff...