Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scout into Field Marshal...
...Talent Scout (Warner Bros.) : amiable comedy about the difficulties of discovering potential cinemactors, the even greater difficulties of capitalizing such discoveries, smoothly acted by a cast whose only well-known member is Donald Woods...
Elected-John Stewart Baker, board chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co.: to be President of the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York, succeeding Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who resigned after having held the position since...
Alan Corby is the closely-guarded pseudonym of a famed U. S. adventure writer. Whether he took an alias because he was afraid Deep Soundings would queer him with his usual Boy Scout audience, or because he wanted it to make its own way as a serious literary work, is hard to say. On the literary side the book is a straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added...
...Teachers' College, served in the Navy during the World War. After graduate work at Columbia University, and research for the New York City Board of Education, he joined Life Camps armed with a complete plan of reorganization. Dr. Sharp, who describes himself as the father of a Girl Scout, considers his job only half begun when the summer is over. He follows the careers of the youngsters who have come to him for summer fun, irons out their home problems, watches that they finish schooling, helps them find employment...