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Daddy's Girl. How do you become the best figure skater in the world? In Barbara Ann's case, a casualty on the battlefield of St. Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan...
...daddy, with his broken body (the army rated him 75% invalid) wanted his only daughter to do everything he couldn't, and to do it well. He called her "Tinker"-a nickname nobody else ever used-and she thought her daddy was something pretty special. When Clyde Scott hobbled around the nine-hole cow-pasture golf course at Kingsmere in the summers, "Tinker" caddied...
Early one night last week, the doorbell began ringing at a fashionable old apartment in Stoneleigh Court, a stone's throw from Washington's Mayflower Hotel. The callers were admitted by Kansas' 76-year-old Senator Clyde Reed, ushered in with a cautious admonition: "Now boys, this is not a drinking party." The warning was unnecessary. The men who gathered in the handsome, antique-filled room had come with a dead serious purpose...
...Lady Elizabeth Clyde, 29-year-old daughter of the seventh Duke of Wellington, was fined ?235 ($940) for evading currency restrictions during a holiday in France. She had cashed ?235 more in checks than British law allows...
President Conant and Clyde Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, are among the leaders in medicine, psychiatry, and social sciences, public health, and education who will attend the centennial observance of the Community Service Society at New York this year. First session will be January...