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...Beatty, 59, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby, Viscount Borodale of Wexford, son-in-law of the late Chicago drygoods tycoon Marshall Field Sr., commander of the 1st battle cruiser squadron in the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), Lord Rector of Edinburgh University (1917), said: "We are about to commit the great appalling blunder of signing away the sea power by which the British Empire came into being and is maintained today. . . . The most enlightened sea officers with whom I talked have condemned the Treaty absolutely as one which will render...
...tell the truth, I'm rather tired of hearing myself described as the author of Sherlock Holmes. One would think that I had written nothing but detective stories."* Asked if there was a prototype for his celebrated sleuth, said he: "Most certainly there was. He was an Edinburgh doctor under whom I studied. He had an uncanny gift of drawing large inferences from small observations. When I tried to draw a detective, naturally I thought of Dr. Bell and his methods. . . . Watson was just an average man-not really stupid, simply average...
Author Hugh Seymour Walpole, 46, is son of the late Bishop G. H. S. Walpole of Edinburgh...
...aristocratic Edinburgh the news that "Jamie" will be sent this spring as Lord High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland caused rich, old ladies to implore their Maker. They will have to address frumpy Mrs. Brown as "Your Grace...
...Martin, Instructor in English, for the study of the history of the Scottish theatre from 1660 to 1767, in regard to the struggle for theatrical entertainments from the restoration to the licensing of a, theatre in Edinburgh...