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Professional Pride. Goodman took to drumming as a Boy Scout in Brooklyn (he thinks "Americans have special imagination and aptitude for drumming"). When he was in high school, he heard a concert by the Philharmonic, and was so fascinated by the timpani that he dashed backstage and asked to become the timpanist's pupil. Six years later his teacher retired, leaving 20-year-old Saul in charge of the percussion section...
...Social Service Committee, however, does not restrict itself solely to settlement house work. Programs have been set up in such places as the Youth Service Board Detention Home in Boston. Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Children's Aid Association. Boy Scout Groups, and inter-racial projects...
...recommendations assert "that it shall be considered unethical under any circumstances to scout any team, by any means whatsoever, except in regularly scheduled games. This prohibits "any attempt to scout practice sessions," and makes the coach directly responsible...
...wife & nine children at home in Perlis made no difference. Explained Riam: "We are Moslems, and the Raja is allowed by our religion to take four wives." Nor did it make any difference that the Raja's first wife, the progressively minded Tengku Budriah, should be a Girl Scout commissioner, a badminton, hockey and tennis player, who believes in the emancipation of Moslem women. Moslem custom demanded that she keep a dutiful silence while, 400 yards from her palace, workmen put the finishing touches on a cozy little green house to be occupied by the beautiful Riam...
Whether or not she had snubbed Gerry, the Queen was neither ill nor standoffish two days later when some 7,000 guests swarmed over Buckingham Palace grounds for a garden party. Peers and plain people, a Maltese Boy Scout, a Sikh naval officer, the president of the Mormon Church, a pink-trousered lady from Pakistan and a bearded artist in a bright green suit were just a few of those among whom the Queen strolled, chatting pleasantly and shaking hands at an average of once every 15 seconds. Even a downpour of rain which sent many guests scuttling into...