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...cold November morning in 1762, an ambitious young Scotsman left his Edinburgh home and took the highroad to London. At 22, James Boswell had no intention of becoming a lawyer like his eminent father, Lord Auchinleck.* He was out to become a Guards officer, not because he liked the army, but because it seemed the surest way to a soft life and quick acceptance in the best London circles. At the end of nine months of scheming and making up to persons of influence, he had failed to crash the Guards and was thinking better...
...discourage his sensual appetite for long, and the Journal is thick with accounts of his cheap and hasty liaisons. Boswell had been .in London less than two weeks when he got news from Scotland that he was the father of a son, the result of a brief affair in Edinburgh. The child died before Boswell saw him, but not before Boswell had righteously admonished the mother "not to fall into such a scrape again...
...room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York christened Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, who looked her 67-day-old best in a satin and lace gown handed down by her great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria...
...short was finished last May and has already been shown abroad at the Edinburgh Festival. It will be presented in Boston this winter...
When an overzealous audience at the Edinburgh music festival began to applaud during a two-bar rest in Ariadne auf Naxos, terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham whirled and shouted, "Shut up!" The audience continued applauding. "Shut up," he snarled, "you bunch of savages...