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...Edinburgh, the General got the freedom of the city, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University. He stood as godfather at the christening of infant Richard Seton Tedder, son of Air Chief Marshal Lord Tedder and his Lady, but refused to hold the child for photographers ("I might drop him!"). Bagpipes welcomed the Eisenhowers to Maybole, where the General was made a freeman and burgess. Ike, who had got in a little shooting on the moors, put the townsfolk at ease: "The poachers among you will find just as many birds left as before I came." Bagpipes...
...world's oldest continuing publication, founded in 1768 in Edinburgh by "a society of gentlemen"; first edited by one William Smellie, a tosspot crony of Robert Burns...
Insulin shock, already used to snap schizophrenics and morphine addicts back to normal, may be a cure for bronchial asthma. In the current British Medical Journal, Dr. Z. Godlowski of the Polish Medical School in Edinburgh reports seven out of eight successes...
...Poor Mr. Audubon." When a British engraver agreed to copy his watercolors for publication, Audubon's fame & fortune were made. Said he in a letter from Edinburgh to his long-suffering Lucy: "It is Mr. Audubon here and Mr. Audubon there until I am afraid poor Mr. Audubon is in danger of having his head turned." With his big beak, feathery sideburns and piercing eyes, he looked, in his latter days, like a benevolent eagle...
...month pastorate in Detroit, his one & only parish. Since 1928 he has been in Manhattan, at Union, where he teaches ethics and philosophy and religion. A high point of Niebuhr's theological recognition came in 1939, when he was invited to deliver the esteemed Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh.* The lectures, published later as the two-volume Nature & Destiny of Man (TIME, March 24,1941), form the substance of Niebuhr's neo-orthodox theology...