Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eagle Scout Ceremony...
...Reporter Stewart was deeply penitent. He got his tip, he explained, from his twelve-year-old niece, a Girl Scout who had picked up the story at camp. He said the story was confirmed by the camp leader. After Stewart had written the first few stories, he had misgivings, but could not muster up enough nerve to tell his editors. Said he: "They were right in firing me. I was awfully goofy...
...Kansas Pacific, was a particularly lively spot, for it was also the terminus of the long overland trail from Texas-the Chisholm Trail, named for the half-breed Cherokee trader who marked it out, Jesse Chisholm. It was in Abilene, moreover, that Wild Bill Hickok, the famed scout and gunfighter, roamed the main street as town marshal with a pair of pistols and a sawed-off shotgun...
Life with the Roses is one crisis after another, e.g., Jane's acid test as a baby sitter when all the formula bottles break, Jimmy-John's grim efforts to ride a bicycle or hike ten miles for a Boy Scout merit badge. Along the line, thanks to the long-suffering Roses, the problem pair finds understanding, love and finally the security that turns them into normal youngsters...
...balanced with comedy. Deft writing and acting freshen even so ancient a running gag as the one about the married couple forever thwarted from going to bed together. As knowing in audience psychology as in child psychology, Room for One More rises above such lapses as treating an Eagle Scout badge-award ceremony with the solemnity of a coronation, or allowing the struggling, hard-pressed Roses to live in a house that is easily worth...