Books
June, 1973
Some years back, Contributing Editor Jean Shepherd reported in these pages that the then-new edition of the venerable Boy Scout Handbook--a publication that has guided boys through thick and thin for generations with information on such survival techniques as "How to Make a Fire Without Matches" and "Brewing Tea from Sassafras Bark"--had moved into uncharted byways of modern boyhood. That 1966 edition included, for example, a new merit badge in communications--to earn which a...
