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Doing the Mekes. Producer of the tattoo* is retired Brigadier Alasdair MacLean of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal...
...rest of Miss Dawson's characters suffer in comparison with her heroine, but they are by no means inadequate. Rarely does one suspect them of existing only to focus Josephine's speculations about the world. Her lover, Alasdair Faber, is considerably more probable than his name implies; his combination of worldly sophistication and angry disenchantment reveals itself clearly in the remarks he addresses to Josephine...
...first advised Lady MacRobert that her son, Sir Alasdair, 25, had crashed in England. The second told her that son Sir Roderic, 26, had been shot down in Iraq. The third reported the loss of son Sir Iain, 24, who was known as "the perfect Coastal Command pilot." With no more sons to give to her country, Lady MacRobert sent Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair a check for ?25,000 to buy a bomber. "It is my wish," she said, "to make-a mother's immediate reply in a way that I know would be my boys' reply...