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HEATHER AND GLEN (Tradition). Folk singers in Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides tell their tales, most often laments-for James MacPherson, dangling from the gallows when his pardon arrives; for William Chisholm. the young husband who died for Prince Charlie in 1746. There are also work songs. Gentle Lady is sung to the rhythmic accompaniment of milk squirting into a pail. It would be hard for any cow to resist Kate Nicholson crooning: "Ruddy-faced and smooth-cheeked, gentle lady, you are my dear one. The calves have sucked, O gentle lady." The real thing by real folk, collected and selected...
...Penkovsky handed over 15 more rolls of film and had five sessions with Western intelligence agents. On occasions when Wynne came to Moscow on a business trip, Penkovsky usually passed his information to him concealed in a box of chocolates, which Wynne allegedly gave to Mrs. Janet Chisholm, wife of a second secretary of the British embassy, for relay to London. When Mrs. Chisholm suspected she was being followed...
...most with it. Among the most conspicuous: Baroness Heinrich von Thyssen (nee Fiona Campbell-Walter); Rosita Winston, one of the world's best-dressed women and a part Cherokee Indian; Donna Marella Agnelli of Turin, whose husband's grandfather founded the Fiat automobile company; Rosie Warburton Gaynor Chisholm, whose grandparents were Old Guard Philadelphians, and whose mother married William K. Vanderbilt...
...Senator from Arizona." To develop his voice, the young cowboy rode into the hills to address the landscape. He exhorted the boulders to rise against the iron heel of oppression. He demanded of the mountains that they nominate Grant for a third term. While other cowpunchers twanged The Old Chisholm Trail, Ashurst (who knew countless stanzas, both clean and dirty, of that song) quoted Shakespeare to the coyotes and the stars. "I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon." he said years later. "As a matter of course, I went into politics...
...treat more patients and train more doctors and nurses. Technically domiciled in Geneva, he spends nearly half the year flying around the world, visiting WHO's member states. Coming from nonaligned Brazil, Dr. Candau began work at WHO with an innate advantage over his predecessor (Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm): the Soviet Union and its satellites, which had walked out of WHO in 1949 for political reasons, accepted his neutrality and returned. As smooth in manner and speech as in his grooming, Dr. Candau refuses to talk politics, now finds that nobody expects him to. A thoroughly practical...