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...Their Majesties can voyage expansively. Specially outfitted suites were being built amidships last week for the King and Queen. To lessen rolling and pitching the ship will carry additional water ballast. The westbound voyage to Quebec is expected to take nine days. The 9,100-ton cruisers Southampton and Glasgow will act as escort...
...welcome copy for any Sunday supplement. When Reporter Defoe went to Scotland in 1706 to spy out political sentiment for his secret master, Secretary of State Robert Harley, he improved his time by picking up believe-it-or-not tales of a bridge over a dry river (between Glasgow and Sterling), of fishermen who killed porpoises with a sock on the nose...
...which they have for centuries enriched our common heritage ... to join with us in a supreme effort to lay the spectre of war." A good idea of the impression this kind of amiable but useless talk makes on the dictators was presented in a cartoon printed in the Glasgow Daily Record & Mail. John Bull, in a phrenologist's parlor run by Hitler and Mussolini, was having his head examined...
Victim of "one of those goddam spurious Irish colleges," Carroll as a young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
Elected to fill the two remaining vacancies* in the American Academy of Arts and Letters (membership limited to 50) were Novelist-Playwright Thornton Niven Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key, The Woman of Andros, Our Town) and Novelist Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (The Romantic Comedians, Barren Ground, Vein of Iron...