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Then someone drew attention to a novel called The North Wind of Love, written in 1944 by Scottish Nationalist Compton Mackenzie, onetime rector of Glasgow University, in which he describes a group of Scottish college graduates who conspire to liberate the Stone, but are exposed at the last moment. Said jubilant Author Mackenzie last week: "I hope I may have given good advice to the young men who carried out this successful effort and shown them what to avoid ... No patriotic Scot could help having a feeling of elation." Mysterious stickers appeared on Glasgow shop fronts: "Would you keep stolen...
...turn of the century, a murder scandal shocked the peaceful city of Glasgow, Scotland. A girl in her early twenties, the eldest daughter of a socially prominent citizen was indicted for poisoning a young Frenchman who had been her secret lover...
Last week Hives put his hand to another new project. He reopened Rolls's huge Glasgow plant to mass-produce the new Avon jet engine (7,500-lb. thrust), successor to the Derwent and Nene (TIME, Oct. 16). The engines made there will go into the sleek Canberra twin-engine bomber, now being built in England for the R.A.F. and a bright possibility for the U.S. Air Force...
...Glasgow, it was the week to elect a new rector-a distinguished man from public life whose job it will be for the next three years to represent students on the university court (Glasgow's administrative head is known as the principal). Following a tradition dating from 1858, the students did the nominating, voting and, mixing national and university politics freely, most of the campaigning, too. Some of the candidates' names bore their political tags: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Conservative; onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Inverchapel (Clark Kerr), Independent; Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Independent; Actress Rosamond John...
...student union to cast their ballots. After a half-hour's voting, the booths were closed to allow time for more shoving and throwing of fishheads. After 90 minutes of such relaxation, voting began again. At length, from the balcony above the main gate of University Building, Glasgow's Principal Sir Hector Hetherington read out the results. The race had been close, but the Scotchest Scot of them all had won. Glasgow's new Rector was John MacDonald MacCormick, leader of the Covenant. "Second: Lord Inverchapel...