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...Council also keeps its 90-odd members busy preparing, programs and speakers for Boston's civic, student, and womens' clubs. Booths are maintained at major conventions, like the Girl Scout one this fall...
...last week, after Commissioner de Raymond had eaten a heavy lunch and was enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind...
Many of the schools committees--formed by Harvard clubs all across the nation to scout out highly-qualified students, interview them, and persuade them to enroll here--date back to the thirties, but until two years ago most of them existed on paper only. Because of this, the College lost many scholars, "scholar athletes," and "scholar-leaders" to the more active Ivy League colleges like Princeton and Yale...
...intrepid team of astronomers from Indiana University who made the long trek to find out the exact location on the map of the geographical center of U.S. population [TIME, Oct. 8] might have saved the wear & tear on their seagoing sextants by consulting a member of the local Boy Scout troop...
After Pearl Harbor, Judge McCarthy took leave of absence and signed up with the Marines. McCarthy's war record was good but not spectacular, and he has made the most of it. He shipped overseas as an intelligence officer with a scout-bombing squadron. Nearly ten years older than most of his squadron, "Father Mac" was very popular, always scrounging beer and extra food for his unit, organizing sports, starting bull sessions. Joe volunteered to defend enlisted men, and boasts of how many courts-martial he beat for his clients...