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After a lonely Irish boyhood, and a top British school (Clifton), Cary had a futile three years' fling as an art student in Paris and Edinburgh before entering Oxford. Once there, he gamely tried to disguise his bohemian artist's vocation beneath a carapace of casual tweed, but only succeeded in proving that academies are not sound judges of literary talent. He got an almost unheard-of fourth-class honors...
...contested the succession, asserting that he was the rightful heir because Sir Ewan had been registered as female at birth and females cannot inherit baronetcies. "My client," Sir Ewan's counsel retorted, "has been male since birth. He was wrongly registered as a female." Earlier this year, an Edinburgh court accepted Sir Ewan's arguments, and last week Home Secretary James Callaghan settled the matter by ordering that Sir Ewan's name be placed on the official roll of baronets...
Stringing Along. Their own paths were surprisingly mundane. Mike, the son of an Edinburgh schoolteacher, began by teaching himself songs on the ukulele by Fats Domino and other vintage rock 'n' rollers. By the time he finished high school, he had moved on to playing guitar with "a lot of bad rock groups" while working in the daytime as an apprentice accountant. Robin, whose father is an Edinburgh insurance executive, started in music when his grandmother gave him a recorder, eventually worked up to playing banjo with a New Orleans-style jazz group...
...offer Hughes Rudd one bottle of ouzo for each drop of Greek blood that he can find in the veins of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, formerly a Prince of Greece [Nov. 1]. "Phil the Greek" aside, the Greek royal family is a junior branch of the Danish royal house, which is mostly North German in origin. Ergo, Philip is not one of your restaurant Greeks be cause he is not of Greek descent - as Mr. Rudd will have...
Some call her the Israeli Brigitte Bardot for the daring decolletage she sometimes sports in films. But when Actress Daliah Lavi, 25, arrived at Scotland's Edinburgh International Festival, she was dressed for another part: that of a gal who had just come from mod, mod London. "Fashion is crazy," said Daliah, who was wearing a jaunty black Homburg, calf-high boots and a sleeveless coat over a white shirt and a mini skirt. "I had to join in like this because when I walk down the street in Lon don without fashion, nobody notices me." Nonsense...