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Word went round Edinburgh like fire: the ships with exchanged prisoners would discharge in the Firth of Forth next day. Edinburgh lined up six deep along the Leith waterfront. Offshore, in the rare sun of a late October morning, the Empress of Russia and the Drottningholm (the men called her the Trotting Home) began transferring their racked and crippled cargoes to tenders...
Freedom for Schoolmen. Coffin's fame spread to England and Scotland, where he was often a preacher. He declined a call to Edinburgh's Free St. George's Church, Scotland's leading parish. He received twelve honorary degrees (five Doctorates of Divinity), including one from the Jewish Theological Seminary, one from the Faculté Libre de Théologie Protestante, Paris...
...characteristic Ryan cliché, "Through the Pages Following Hereafter Pass the Most Beautiful Checker Games in the World," and sprinkled with un-Shakesperian asides, he unfolds 232 pages of diagrams and diagnoses. He also expounds for pages on three of the most treacherous openings ever devised: the Edinburgh Single, a deciding factor in more match and tournament games than any other known opening; the Octopus, whose "manifold tentacles . . . have ensnared many of the game's ablest critics"; and Oliver's Twister, a baffler ever since Manhattan's Oliver J. Mauro laid down its basic "theme" some years...
...installed, they held their own service in St. Columba's Church, seated as their Moderator Dr. David McKenzie. Said one of them: "We have come to praise the disruption fathers, not to entomb them anew under any rearrangement of admitted facts." By & large, the good folk of Edinburgh seemed somewhat indifferent to both installations. Some citizens even derided the ceremonial pomp of the larger group. John Knox, some felt sure, would have lambasted their ceremonial complacency just as roundly as he had denounced Queen Mary's. Said one shrewd old Scottish reprobate, watching the colorful procession debouching from...
...Head. Young for a moderator (56), Baillie is the son of a Rosshire manse. Bright as a new threepenny bit, he went to Edinburgh University (where he now teaches divinity), collected scholarships as a child strings daisies. After further study in Germany he returned to Edinburgh to teach moral philosophy. U.S. centers of learning know him well: at intervals between 1919-41 he lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Union and Auburn Seminaries. While at Auburn (1920) he was ordained in the Presbyterian Ministry. He thus becomes the Church of Scotland's first American-ordained Moderator...