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...British in Kenya marched off against the Mau Mau. For Scotsmen in the U.S., normally outshouted and out-paraded by the Irish, it was a great and noisy occasion: on hand for a 57-city U.S. and Canadian tour were the pipes and drums, regimental band and Highland dancers of Scotland's own Black Watch, under the command of Major Claud MacBeth Moir...
...standard Black Watch ceremonials. The Crimean Reveille starts with a single, furiously impatient bugle call that gives way to the pipes and drums skirling and moaning through The Soldier's Return and other wild pipe tunes-The Green Hills of Tyrol, King George V's Army, The Highland Laddie...
Mixed Breed. Sir Winston Churchill's regiment, the Fourth Queen's Own Hussars, will be merged with the Eighth King's Royal Irish Hussars, the Royal Scots Fusiliers with the Highland Light Infantry. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (which suffered the heaviest casualties at Waterloo) now becomes one with the Somerset Light Infantry (nicknamed "The Illustrious Garrison" after its defense of Jellalabad in 1842). Two of the best known of the Scottish regiments, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders must form one unit, find new tartans for their...
Thirteen members of the class were elected to the Massachusetts Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, it was announced today. New members are Grace O. Adkins of South Norwalk, Conn.; Mari Jane DeCosta of Highland Park, III.; Anna Fellner of New Haven, Conn.; Faith Howard of Westmount, Quebec; and Ellen Franzen, Deirdre Hubbard, and Sheila LaFarge, all of New York City. Also Amy Mims, of Chicago, III.; Carol S. Powers of Swampscott, Mass.; Virginia Rhinelander of Stanford, Calif.; Sallyann A. Sack of Cleveland, Ohio; and Judith Schultz of Huntington Valley, Penn...
...British intelligence. Which colonel will command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen...