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Birthday. Daniel Carter (Dan) Beard, illustrator, author (Moonlight and Six Feet of Romance ; Shelters, Shacks & Shanties; Bugs, Butterflies & Beetles; Do It Yourself); "oldest Boy Scout," co-founder of Boy Scouts of America with Ernest Thompson Seton and Lt. -General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace...
...crisis occurred fortnight ago. One Alfred G. Smyth, patriotic Samoan merchant returned from a two-year exile incurred by asking embarrassing questions in 1928. Welcoming him at the dockside was a delegation of the Mau, and a watchful detachment of New Zealand constabulary. Leading cheers for the return of Al Smyth was the only survivor of Samoa's royal family, the High Chief Tamasese. In the excitement of the moment someone hit a constable by the name of Abraham on the head, with fatal results. There was a burst of gunfire. A moment later High Chief Tamasese and seven other...
Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will...
WILLIAM H. SMYTH...
Doubles Frame and Edward Orlandini '32 defeated Harte and Warner (Y), 1-0, 6-4, 8-6; Bascom and Eddy (Y) defeated A. S. Armstrong '32 and Wadsworth, 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; Woodbury and G. B. Ray '32 defeated Smyth and Stanton...