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...Union his reception was cool. But soon his classes were among the most crowded in the seminary. He moved from class to class surrounded by disputatious students, who soon called him "Reinie." In 1939, Niebuhr became the fifth American* to be invited to deliver the Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University. Niebuhr drew the biggest crowds in Gifford history, later published the lectures as The Nature and Destiny...
...London, Cabbie Elmo Poluck felt a sharp jolt from behind, climbed out to pay his respects to the other driver. "What's your name and address?" he demanded. The embarrassed reply: the Duke of Edinburgh. "Then," Poluck reported, "something inside me brain clicked, and I looked up and said, 'Oh, oh, so it is!' Then I lost my equilibrium. ... I saw the Princess smiling inside the car, so I raised my hat to her and she nodded back. Then they drove away...
...short, Britain was edging close to bankruptcy. Without Marshall Plan aid, her position would soon be arithmetically hopeless. At Edinburgh last week, Cripps gave a somber summary: ". . . The whole future of our country really hangs in the balance. We have nothing to spare-no slack to take up. . . . The gold reserves of the sterling area are all that now stand between us and disaster...
...most popular books. But the high, old tottering voice of literary criticism has either ignored it or rated it as the literary equivalent of scooters and bubble gum. Now, Cornell Lecturer David Daiches (Poetry in the Modern World, The Novel in the Modern World), like Stevenson an Edinburgh expatriate, has made an attempt to increase his countryman's stature with a careful, interesting, but rather timid analysis of Stevenson's works...
Emigrants & Strangers. Roaming through the streets of Edinburgh, the hills of Pentland, the romantic Highlands, Novelist Stevenson and Critic Daiches are as happy together as two old emigrants swapping reminiscences of the old country. But in most other matters they are temperamentally total strangers. Studious Critic Daiches is chiefly interested in showing that if Stevenson had not been cut off in his prime, he would have parked his little scooter and become as profound and dignified as Sophocles and Shakespeare. Romantic Novelist Stevenson (a tubercular who was to die in Samoa at 43) was chiefly interested in enjoying the lively...