Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little Free Church of Scotland, strict Highland offshoot of the Church of Scotland, passed a resolution expressing "grief and concern" that the royal couple, in their visit to Paris (TIME, May 24) had indulged in "racing, theater and nightclub dancing on the Lord...
...Arcaro has been making his way against odds, which have shortened considerably through the years. First, it was his size. At Southgate, Ky., just across the river from Cincinnati, the other kids told him that he was too small to play baseball. At ten, as a caddy at the Highland Country Club, he took such a shine to the game that his father, Patsy Arcaro, the comfortably fixed proprietor of a china store, thought he had a golfer in the family. One of Eddie's best clients was Tom McCaffery, a crotchety race horse owner...
...writing either: 1) Eddie Albert Productions, 1133 North Highland, Hollywood 28, Calif.; or 2) E. C. Brown Trust, University of Oregon Medical School, Portland...
Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...
...breakfast in little revolving huts [in the grounds of her residences, Windsor, Balmoral and Osborne] mounted on turntables so that they could be faced away from the wind. Weather permitting, she would ride over to these shelters in a little carriage drawn by a white pony led by a Highland attendant." When she died, "the Edwardian era had arrived in the genial shape of my grandfather; and the effect . . . was the same ... as if a Viennese hussar had suddenly burst into an English vicarage...