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...Scout Masters. Busses hustled them out to the river front parks where cooking, dining, administration tents and innumerable little wooden comfort stations had already been erected. The arrivals scattered over 350 acres, erected bright-colored tents for themselves, pounded tent pegs and fingers. At 8:45 next morning a trench mortar boomed and 25,000 Boy Scouts stood at attention. It boomed again and the flags of 52 nations rose in an avenue of flags beneath the Washington Monument. It boomed a third time, up went 1,634 flags to 1,634 mastheads throughout the encampment. The ten-day Jamboree...
...screen or on the printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
Playing for the Crimson will be: Peter H. Knapp, George Clowes, Edward F. Whitney, Henry Miller, Archer Trench, Thomas Gephart, Austin Scott, Ronald Williams, Samuel Cockins, Captain Hayden Channing, Henry Kidder, William Waters, James A. Field, William J. Watt and Gavin Hadden...
...lineup will be--forwards, Knapp, Clowes, Whitney, Scott, Gephart, Trench, Harkness, and Williams; scrum half, Cockins; stand off half, Channing; inside three quarters, Waldinger, and Desmond; wing three quarters, Watt, and Simpson; fullback, Waters...
...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...