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...Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn of Ontario asked the Ottawa Government to order flags flown at half-mast for Margaret Hayworth, asserted that the "world's jury" had found Adolf Hitler guilty of the child's murder. Dr. Richard L. Jenkins, of Warwick, N. Y., returning from an Edinburgh scientific convention when the Athenia was torpedoed, had written a poem "to the memory of Margaret Hayworth" on the voyage over...
...amiable war horse of British political life, the sort of indulgent after-dinner speaker who keeps a card index of good jokes, stuffs his pockets with them when he goes to a banquet, Lord Macmillan was a youthful prodigy at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the Scottish bar at 24 and became editor of a legal review at 27. Then his career hit an eleven-year gap of unpublicized performance from which it emerged in 1918, to reveal the young lawyer as Assistant Director of Intelligence in Britain's Wartime Ministry of Information. After the War, Scot...
Among the 313 U. S. passengers were persons from 20 States: six New Jerseyites, a party of ten college girls mostly from Texas, three geneticists returning from a convention in Edinburgh, four U. S. aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother-in-law (Franklin Dexter) of U. S. Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern...
...Complete Sadness." In Edinburgh 500 members of the International Genetical Congress met to discuss chances of creating healthier, more intelligent human beings. Absent from the meeting for political reasons best known to the Soviet Government were 50 Russian delegates, including the head of the Congress, famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden...
...replace Professor Vavilov, delegates elected Professor F. E. Crew of the University of Edinburgh, who said: "The atmosphere of the Congress has been turned to one of complete sadness. Nothing, however, can put out the light of science...