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...that the Navy hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain's Royal Highland "Black Watch" Regiment at the White House, had enjoyed Ireland's "Irish Guards" on his trip abroad last June, she asked for both. She suggested that the U.S. Air Force's own ceremonial bagpipers appear at Arlington, wailing off over a hill in an exit similar...
...Highland villagers of Perthshire, Britain's Prime Minister last week put on the liveliest show since Bonnie Prince Charlie battled through their misty glens in 1745. In Dalguise and Dunkeld, Amulree and Buchanty, and scores of other grey hamlets and market towns, Sir Alec Douglas-Home shook hands with shepherds and shopkeepers, downed a wee drappie with farmers, popped into cottages, schools and smithies. The Prime Minister even took a noble pratfall in the mud as he was scrambling up a haycart to address the folk in sleepy Dunning. "Well," he grinned, getting to his feet...
...often fail to realize that they are on call round the clock, must check out more than 200 fine details for every case, have a tremendous overhead and operating expense, and usually serve the public at a great sacrifice to their personal family life. (THE REV.) MALCOLM E. WETHERBEE Highland Congregational Church Somerville, Mass...
...Women!, the battle of the sexes fought on a psychoanalyst's couch (by Franchot Tone in 1953), now with Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr. Highland Park, 111.; Vineland. Ont.; Berkeley, Calif...
Sinclair's antagonist is Colonel Barrow, a nervous and insecure officer of university background who has been gazetted commanding officer of the Highland battalion over his less educated compatriot's head. John Mills, who always adds a superior performance to his acting credits, steals the show from Guinness as this chilly martinet, a man you cannot love, but with whom you feel obliged to sympathize. Neither Sinclair nor Barrow is a particularly pleasant character, but at least the latter has an excuse for being both stubborn and conciliating, commendable and pathetic--he has undergone torture in a World...