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Born in Brooklyn in 1941, Gale’s music career started when he played bugle for his cub scout brigade.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2020
According to the paper, cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett asked him: "Would you like to give me what you have in your hands?"
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
Mowgli in his latest incarnation is a rather engaging and innocent little boy, more like a cub scout than a cub.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without warning, I went from being an active New York kid who loved baseball and being a cub scout to an invalid, confined to bed and isolated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and snow, up hill and through bog, that Frodo seems at times like a mythical postman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malibu’s Cub Scout Pack 224 lost its pinewood derby track — the testing grounds for a highly anticipated annual Scouting tradition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
“He has no experience leading an organization, no less a Cub Scout pack,” Brunner said.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
This common area includes tot lots, gazebos, a small pond and the creek, which Fox Mill’s Cub Scout Pack 159 helps maintain.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2023
“The Watergate scandal was like a Cub Scout meeting compared to this assault.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
He had pudgy, boyish features, thin hair that was so blond it was almost white, and he was full of weird, chipper energy, like an overcaffeinated Cub Scout leader.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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