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...Washington's acting National Committeeman Fred Baker, onetime Boy Scout leader and active Willkieite, who arrived with an eight-page "Salt Lake City Charter" in his pocket. Fred Baker's charter contained some bold, some sensible proposals: abolition of the Senate's two-thirds rule on approval of treaties, extension of social security to farmers and small businessmen, a tax on war-induced incomes, creation of a War Cabinet...
...life. The father sees his son's first day at school, sees him playing Indian in the cornfields. He lives again through the moment when the twelve-year-old boy, not knowing that he was observed, gave up the money he was saving for a scout ax to a man in need. He sees the glamor and cruelty of his son's shy first love, sees him begin to assume responsibilities in the drugstore. Then one day the boy achieves the certitude that World War II is everybody's business. He enlists in the Navy. His father...
...Officer Because Well Just Look At That Dumb Shavetail." The Army is chuck full of officers, so forget it if you're thinking of having your Old Man buy you a commission in the Black Watch or the Third Highland Fusileers when you graduate from A-12 or Boy Scout Troop...
...THURBER, James, autobiographer, was born in Columbus, Ohio. . . . He began to write when he was ten years old (Horse Sandusky, the Intrepid Scout). . . . Quick to arouse, he is very hard to quiet, and people often just go away. . . . He never listens when anybody else is talking, preferring to keep his mind a blank until they get through so he can talk. . . . Two overcoats which he left in the New Yorker office last spring were stolen, or else he left them someplace else...
...first time this year, Lamar will have the benefit of scout's reports, since he and Floyd Stahl have seen Tufts three times--at the pre-season scrimmage and at two games when the Crimson wasn't busy--and he has been able to conduct his practice sessions accordingly. Manly has had scouts at all Harvard games