Word: scouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BADEN-POWELL STAMPS bicycle-mounted field messengers, the prototype of the subsequent Boy Scout. The appearance of a subject's portrait on an officially recognized postage stamp reportedly shocked Queen Victoria to the whalebones; she deemed it highly improper that any but the ruling sovereign's likeness should appear on any postage stamp within the British Empire...
...nights until 4 a.m. prowling theaters and nightclubs; in the summer, he spends six weeks abroad rounding up Swiss bell ringers, Japanese jugglers and enough animals to stock the Bronx Zoo, including such rare species as a water-skiing elephant and a piano-playing dog. For many years, his scout on the Chicago vaudeville circuit was the late Poet Carl Sand burg. "He got us the Australian woodchopper act," says Sullivan proudly, "and the fellow who stitches his fingers together with a needle and thread...
...strength of our country is in direct relationship to the strength and skills of the men running its corporations." So says Manhattan's Sidney M. Boyden, 67, who manufactures nothing, markets nothing, manages a staff that is smaller (30 associates) than the average Boy Scout troop. As founder and president of Boyden Associates, Inc., he has supplied more big businesses with top managers than any other U.S. executive recruiter...
Even at this distance in time, to say anything less than laudatory about the founder of the Boy Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...
...world's first Boy Scout, who won his original fame for his defense of Mafeking during the Boer War, turns out to have been a very shrewd operator indeed. At a time when one bemedaled British generalissimo after another was getting his cavalry pants shot oft by those hairy, puritan Dutch farmers in South Africa, Colonel Baden-Powell turned himself into just the sort of hero his country was yearning for. His own reports about his stand at Mafeking gave the folks at home a rare excuse to dance in the streets, get patriotically drunk, and sing God Save...