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Last week in Edinburgh, where, stern John Knox once thundered against the impiety of 16th Century non-Presbyterian queens,-some Scots were up to their favorite game of censuring English morals. Their targets: Princess Elizabeth and husband Philip...
...when Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots, brought her court to Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
Last year at Edinburgh Walter had led his old orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week, after his first rehearsal, he said: "This is the Vienna that can't be destroyed-the sound of this orchestra. It plays now as in 1897 when I first heard it; it has lost none of its character or quality...
...busiest men in Britain this week is a man named Godfrey Mowatt. He is tall, white-haired, 73 years old-and blind. With his hand lightly touching the shoulder of his guide, he is traveling to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durham, Birmingham and Coventry to heal the sick...
Maggie Teyte will sing Mèlisande four more times at City Center, return to Britain for the second Edinburgh Festival in August, and then perhaps will make a farewell tour of the U.S. Says she: "Dammit all, one can't go on forever...