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...Paris; Robert P. Madison to study architecture at the National Higher School of Fine Arts, Paris; Ralph E. Matlaw to study comp. lit. at the Univ. of Paris; John W. McCoubrey to study art history at the Univ. of Paris; Wallace McDonald to study history at the Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland; Lawrence Moe to study musicology at the G. B. Martini Conservatory at Bologna, Italy; William A. Morrison to study sociology at the Univ. of Bombay; Don Page to study architecture at the Polytechnic Institute, Milan; Theodore W. Patterson to study city planning at the Univ. of London...
Scotland took the hint. From Edinburgh the Scotch Whisky Association dispatched twelve bottles of "genuine Scotch whisky" to Representative Boothby. Dublin's Irish whisky distillers sent two cases of its finest to Representative Boland. Asked to preside over the High Authority of a European Whisky Pool, Boothby eagerly accepted. There will be further (informal) deliberations just as soon as the stuff arrives in Strasbourg...
...Moore's missionary zeal has taken him to Edinburgh as a visiting professor and to Korea as consultant on problems which Army surgeons are trying to work out close behind the front. He is already looking eagerly at the next great, unexplored territory: the influence of psychological factors on surgical patients, e.g., what are the differences in response between patients operated on after long illnesses and those who have suffered sudden injury? Wha difference does it make if a soldier is wounded as soon as he goes into combat, or after long months of action and exhaustion...
...blooming asters and chrysanthemums, the end of summer brought a blossoming of learned conferences, all dedicated to the hopeful (and frequently alarming) pursuit of progress: ¶The British Association for the Advancement of Science, in Belfast, was greeted at its 114th session by its previous president, the Duke of Edinburgh. Theme of the conference: "Of what use is science if man does not survive?" Discussion ranged from the number of mouse hairs contained in a pound of flour (there may be as many as 180), to a time-motion study of the Royal Navy (only 15% of British tars shave...
Before the festival was over, Edinburgh had reason to congratulate itself. More people-some 600,000-were expected to come to the Scottish capital's party than ever before. And no true Scot could be indifferent to the fact that the festival visitors would leave behind them between...