Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naming names and presenting devastating documentary evidence to back up his case, Carlson's story recounts perilous personal sleuthing under the alias of "Robert Thompson, Nationalist Veteran." Despite a lack of technical slickness, the book's of feet is Shock, penetrating with the knowledge that a minimum of 5,000,000 ex-servicemen are unorganized, politically impressionable, socially semi-literate, and that we are due for hard times when demagogues may make hay. You are reminded that the fanatics serve as the fall guys of this country's fascism; that the root of the evil lies in the transmission belt...
...your tribute to the late Ernest Thompson Seton [TIME, Nov. 4], it seems to me you go a little beyond reason when you give him credit for having started the Boy Scout movement, apparently on the assumption that every good movement must have commenced in the United States. It is a matter of history that the Boy Scout movement was organized in Britain, by the late Lord Baden-Powell...
...writer was established, but the naturalist was not. Naturalist John Burroughs called Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton a nature faker. So the younger man wrote his learned, monumental (eight volumes) Lives of Game Animals (sales: a piddling 2,650 copies). Later the John Burroughs Memorial Association made amends by giving the still-living naturalist a medal...
Then Ernest Thompson Seton had a vision that would restore all the youth of the world to nature. He blueprinted the organization of the Boy Scouts (with whose high command he later quarreled). Almost inevitably, the life and nature worship of the Indians obsessed him more & more. There seemed no other way out of civilization's ills...
Died. Ernest Thompson Seton, 86, British-born, Canada-reared naturalist-artist-author (Wild Animals I Have Known, Trail of the Sandhill Stag, etc.), father of Authoress Anya Seton (Dragon-wyck); in Seton Village, N. Mex. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...