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...itself, there has never been any relief of finishing. Its first edition appeared in 1768 in Edinburgh: three volumes put out by a "society of gentlemen." To these gentlemen, California was "a large country of the West Indies," a toothache could be cured by "laxatives of manna and cassia dissolved in asses' milk," and tobacco could dry up the brain to "a little black lump." Later, as knowledge grew and changed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had to grow and change with...
...Your Fingers. It was Edward Johnson himself who first brought Rudolf Bing forward 23 months ago as a likely successor. The Met's directors were impressed by Bing's prewar experience with Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Company and the success he had made of the postwar Edinburgh Festivals. Bing's first acts as manager nonetheless made the 37 directors nervously cross their august fingers...
Then came Edinburgh, originally thought up by Bing to create a market for the Glyndebourne company, which was to be the main attraction. One of the most remarkable examples of Bing's tact, competence and persuasiveness is that he managed to persuade the Scots to have an Edinburgh Festival at all. He did it, not by promising it would make money, but, says his onetime assistant and successor at Edinburgh, Scotsman Ian Hunter, by infusing "a terrific sense of idealism about the venture." At any rate, as the 150,000 music lovers who visited Edinburgh last year proved...
...royal convoy, the frigate Surprise, carrying Princess Elizabeth, escorted by the frigate Magpie, commanded by the Duke of Edinburgh, put into Turko-Limano for a six-day unofficial visit to Greece and the duke's family...
...Scottish veterinary student from the University of Edinburgh was one of the first to interest the world in Nessie. He was riding home on his motorbike along the shores of a lake in the Inverness Highlands on a moonlit winter night in 1934 when he saw the beast. "I was almost on it," said Arthur Grant later, "when a small head on a long neck turned in my direction, and the object, taking fright, made two great bounds, crossed the road and plunged into the lake...