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...cain't fool about heah an' see yu hang thet boy," drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking, fast-shooting, cattle-rustling, horse-stealing desperadoes...
Relatively young men who were Scouts only a few years ago are often ignorant of Scouting's present ramifications. Instead of entering the Scouts at 12, a youngster may now enter as a "Cub" at 9. After three years in a Cub Pack, he may become a tenderfoot Scout after learning the knots, etc., etc.; a second-class Scout after learning first aid, woodcraft, etc., etc.; then a first-class Scout after swimming 50 yards, etc., etc.; a Star Scout after winning five merit badges, a Life Scout (ten merit badges) and an Eagle Scout (21 merit badges...
...Californian that a Mayflower-immigrant ancestor does to an Easterner) but not by his own choice: he was sent to San Francisco as an army officer. Young John grew up in an atmosphere of horses, guns and gold-mining. Says he: "I suppose I never was a tenderfoot." As his father wanted him to get an Eastern education, to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School he went. There he was a fair student, an outstanding athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked up a knowledge of boxing that later stood him in good stead. Because he wanted an outdoor...
Captain McGregor (Gary Cooper) is a hardbitten, warm-hearted soldier. Lieut. Forsythe (Franchot Tone) is a flip Oxonian, with good manners and a lionheart. Lieut. Stone (Richard Cromwell) is the tenderfoot son of the stern regimental commander (Sir Guy Standing). The three engage in sport and pleasant banter until a rascally potentate kidnaps young Stone and the other two attempt to rescue him. When the potentate puts lighted bamboo splinters under McGregor's finger nails, he makes a face but tells no secrets. Neither does Forsythe, but flabby Stone despicably reveals the whereabouts of a British ammunition train...
David Wm. James, in his incorrect and unTIMEly criticism (TIME, Dec. 30, p. 2) of Mister Speaker's background (TIME. Dec. 16, frontispiece), shows lack of Boy Scout training. I suggest that he cooperate with the nearest troop where any tenderfoot scout can tell him HIS UNDERSTANDING of courtesies due our National Emblem NEEDS REVERSAL...