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...best-paid painters in the world today is Britain's James Gunn, 60. As the nation's top society portraitist, he earns more than $50,000 a year painting such famous names and faces as Field Marshal Montgomery, the Duke of Edinburgh, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich. Last week Gunn reached a climax of his career when his official state portrait of Queen Elizabeth took the place of honor at the new Royal Academy exhibition in London...
...Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia is due at the Libyan port of Tobruk. There, Prince Charlie and Princess Anne will rendezvous with their globe-girdling parents, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh...
...Dusen turned for advice to the greatest Presbyterian preacher and pastor of his time, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Coffin advised him to do what he himself had done: study for a year at Edinburgh, then return for the rest of his training at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Van Dusen agreed, and thereupon began walking in Dr. Coffin's footsteps...
...Edinburgh he took lodgings with two other Americans, and impressed them with his Spartan indifference to the deficiencies of Scottish heating, his zeal for theology, and his scrupulousness about accounting for every groat he spent from the trust fund in Philadelphia on which he was drawing...
...managed to find time for some mild social life in Edinburgh; at one party he met Elizabeth Bartholomew of the Scottish mapmaking Bartholomews, whom he married in 1931 when he went back to Edinburgh for his Ph.D. But relaxation, social or otherwise, is not one of Pit Van Dusen's talents. Once, when his friend Erdman Harris and another classmate with some extra cash planned to visit Rome for a splurge during a winter recess, 23-year-old Van Dusen heard about it and quickly revised the plans...