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Divorced. By Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, 62, tall, tweedy British Ambassador to Russia and recent Yalta conferee: Lady Kerr (Maria Teresa Diaz Salas), 38, comely Chilean socialite, now a resident of Manhattan; after 16 years of childless marriage; in Edinburgh, Scotland. The grounds: desertion (since...
...James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose, Scottish Covenanter who later supported the Stuarts and was hanged by order of the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh...
...been a student under great Biologist Thomas Huxley. He was one of those versatile men who are referred to every decade as "the last Renaissance man." When he felt that his scientific writings were detracting from his civic obligations, Geddes switched to town-planning and slum clearance in Edinburgh. Because he believed that Scotland owed a great debt to Hindu philosophy, Geddes taught hygiene and town-planning in India for ten years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential condition...
...Dusen is a Princeton man, descended from a line of Princeton men. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and his class ('19) elected him "best all-around man outside athletics." He studied at Union, got his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1924, went to Edinburgh for graduate work. He began teaching at Union in 1926. In 1932, after another sojourn in Edin burgh, to get a Ph.D., he became the Seminary's dean, a job he held eight years...
Then the mass moved toward the improvised canteen-all except the quietly smiling stretcher cases-for a spread of precious tea, coffee, hot milk, pies, buns, slab chocolate and 10,000 sandwiches that the women of Edinburgh and Leith had frantically put together the night before. Some noticed that the prisoners reached first for white bread and newspapers...