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Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Jessie Wallace Jordan, a 51-year-old British-born hairdresser who became a German citizen by marriage, was tried for espionage. Main evidence against Mrs. Jordan was her sketches of certain unidentified County of Fife fortifications (presumably a huge aviation training airdrome at Leuchars, near Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick...
...cinema houses, wide suburban areas. Also included in the sale was Cardiff Castle, in which Lord Bute once entertained 10,000 guests and to which tourists pay one shilling entrance fee. Lord Bute, who with characteristic self-effacement went to War as Private Crichton-Stuart, also owns London and Edinburgh town houses, Kames Castle and Mount Stuart, Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, the luxurious Moorish-style El Minzah Palace Hotel of Tangier, the Castle of Guadacorte, about ten miles north of Gibraltar in Rightist Spain...
Connor loved fishing, canoeing, talks with political bigwigs, the sound of bagpipes, victorious debates with Baptists (he was a Presbyterian), the city of Edinburgh, football, his work as chaplain of the Canadian forces during the War. But almost everything taught him a lesson; when he could barely lift his arms after paddling a canoe on remote Lake Wanapitei, he found that "you don't forget what you learn through suffering." Only enjoyment that did not tempt him to moralize was listening to bagpipes. Whether he heard them in Edinburgh or in his family parlor, he gave himself...
Died. Robert Tait McKenzie, 70, long-time (1904-30) director of physical education at the University of Pennsylvania and able, prolific sculptor of athletes, soldiers, Boy Scouts; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. His most noted work was his Scottish-American War Memorial which now stands just off Edinburgh's Princes Street...
...studying philosophy, biology and literature without getting a degree. In 1915 he met the most pervasive influence of his life in a little book by a Scot named Patrick Geddes, a biologist trained under the great Thomas Henry Huxley. Geddes had turned to sociology and to the study of Edinburgh and other cities. Mumford became a student of New York. Within the next few years he covered the city systematically on foot, studied architecture, learned to tell the approximate date c tenement was built from a glance at the fire escape or the cornice...