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...Ambassador Lewis Douglas beamingly accepted an LL.D. from Edinburgh University, pleasantly surprised the onlookers by revealing just how Scottish he is. His great-grandfather learned medicine and surgery in Edinburgh, said Douglas, and "here my grandfather was twice a student in your university, and met not far from here the gentle lady who was to be my grandmother...
...motor, train and plane (including a special once-a-day turbojet transport which made it from London in 90 minutes), the first wave of a record crowd of 150,000 poured into Edinburgh. American collegians in crew cuts and seersuckers, arty Frenchmen wearing beards and corduroys, sturdy Scandinavians in hiking boots and shorts, grey-haired elders with guidebooks in hand thronged broad, flag-lined Princes and George Streets, puffed up Castle Hill, or jammed into pubs where Scotch was plentiful at 63? a double shot...
...Edinburgh was ready for them with its biggest musical show ever. On opening night, a big crowd packed vast Usher Hall to hear Conductor Roger Desormiere and his Orchestre National de la Radiodifjusion Francaise start things off. Before the three-week festival is over, visitors will hear, in all, 1,630 musicians and actors from eight nations, including six orchestras, four choirs, five chamber ensembles, more than 40 soloists, three ballet companies, one opera company. The only cancellation: Professor Skupa's Puppet Theatre, which was forbidden by the Czech government to leave Prague...
...been improperly laid out on Actor Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh, on duty with the British Fleet at Malta. In the midst of the festivities, the party almost broke up when planes from the U.S. carrier Midway started a live-bombing practice raid on a nearby island...
Jackson has accepted a professorship at the University of Edinburgh...