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...helped make ice shows a popular U. S. entertainment. But few U. S. skaters know much about Jackson Haines, the father of figure skating. Jackson Haines was not the first skater to trace a pattern on ice. As far back as 1642, there was a skating club in Edinburgh, whose membership was confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship of the U. S., the sport consisted of stiff tracings judged only by accuracy. Haines...
...received the honorary degree D. Litt, from Oxford and an LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh...
Last fortnight big Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor and strong man of the British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
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...closest advisers. Mentioned among the ginger groups as a possible Prime Minister because he did a good job as Secretary of State for Scotland in Ramsay Macdonald's Cabinet and yet stands well with the Tories, Sir Archibald demanded a "grand inquest." "I hope," he thundered to an Edinburgh audience, "that it is not too late for craven and irresolute counsels to be suppressed. ... I am amazed at the false prophets telling us that Hitler missed the bus, that we have turned the corner and that we are now ten times more confident than six months ago. That reminds...