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Dean Rogers of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will speak tonight at the first meeting of the course. Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be the guest lecturer the following week...
Scottish Artist Archibald Robertson painted it in 1792, on commission from Washington's distant kinsman, the eleventh Earl of Buchan. The earl's fancy: to have a picture of his revolutionary relation as first President of the U.S. Supposedly mislaid, the picture was found hanging in the hall of the 15th earl in 1939, identified as Robertson's Washington. Last May, the earl sent it off to Sulgrave Manor (since 1914 a Washington shrine). Not especially publicity conscious, Sulgrave Manor just got around to announcing the acquisition last week...
Died. The 13th Earl of Home, Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 77, head of the Scottish clan of Home, wealthy landowner, host to Neville Chamberlain upon the late Prime Minister's return from his "Peace for Our Time" meeting with Hitler; of a heart attack; in Coldstream, Scotland...
...Korean inspection tour, flying a few hundred yards behind the grasshopper plane of Lieut. General James Van Fleet, the light plane carrying Under Secretary of the Army Archibald S. Alexander crash-landed on a mountainside near the eastern front. He telephoned the U.S. to assure his wife that his injuries were slight (two black eyes, a bump on the head, one broken foot bone), then flew home to a big welcome in Washington...
Died. Lord Inverchapel of Loch Eck (Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr), 69, one of Britain's top career diplomats (42 years of service) and a chief adviser to the British representatives at the Potsdam, Yalta, Teheran and Cairo Conferences; of a heart attack; in Greenock, Scotland. Following four years as ambassador to Nationalist China's wartime capital, Chungking, he was sent to Moscow in 1942 for the war years, once spent two congenial hours with Stalin in a Kremlin bomb shelter during a Nazi air raid. His last assignment before retiring to his farm in Scotland: Ambassador...