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J. Warren Young, who served 32 years as Boys’ Life publisher, dies at 79

March 23, 2018 2

J. Warren Young, who helped generations of young people discover the joys of reading in his 32 years as publisher of Boys’ Life magazine, died March 20, 2018. He was 79.

Scouts in Action story in Boys’ Life inspires Cub Scout to save a life

February 1, 2018 5

One of the most popular sections of Boys’ Life magazine, Scouts in Action, inspired an act of heroism in a 6-year-old Tiger Scout in South Carolina.

Was this quote attributed to Groucho Marx actually published in Boys’ Life first?

January 11, 2018 1

A popular quote commonly attributed to comedian Groucho Marx might have appeared first in the popular “Think and Grin” jokes section of Boys’ Life magazine two decades earlier.

Like this: Vote Boys’ Life as your favorite magazine cover of 2017

January 5, 2018 3

The February 2017 cover of Boys’ Life, featuring an image by W. Garth Dowling, has been selected as a finalist in the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Best Cover Contest.

Boys’ Life offers special discount just in time for International Literacy Day

September 8, 2017 3

In honor of International Literacy Day, anyone can subscribe to Boys’ Life at half price: 12 issues for just $12 a year. That’s $1 a month.

On opposite sides of barbed-wire fence, an enduring friendship formed in Scouting

August 24, 2017 4

Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson became fast friends inside the internment camp, bonding over their shared love of comics, silly stories and Scouting.

The history of Scouting and s’mores

August 10, 2017 17

Did you know that the tradition of Scouts browning marshmallows over a fire began well before s’mores blazed onto the scene in 1927?

Remember this? All about that nun reading BL in ‘Airplane!’

June 1, 2017 32

Remember that nun reading “Boys’ Life” in the classic comedy “Airplane!” Here are seven things you may not know about that scene.

Hometown Media helps jamboree participants tell their story

January 18, 2017 0

Get your guys and girls to register today as National Hometown Media Correspondents, where they’ll make headlines in newspapers, TV stations and websites.

Thumbs up: Vote BL as your favorite magazine cover of 2016

January 5, 2017 2

Vote for Boys’ Life’s September 2016 cover in the American Society of Magazine Editors Best Cover Contest. Registering your Like takes just a second.