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Tunes of Glory (Colin Lesslie; Lopert). Up at the castle the pipers are piping a jig for Jock Sinclair. Rank: acting C.O. of a Highland battalion. Origin: wrong side of Glasgow. Military record: rose through the ranks, took command of the battalion at El Alamein. led it to glory. Personal data: has hair like ginger and a temper to match. Remarks: Jock loves the battalion, the battalion loves Jock, and the paughty people who see this picture will love him too. because Jock Sinclair is one of the most lifelike creatures that ever sprang full-snooted from the jovial brow...
...museums have to dip into native funds. The Wyeth was a gift of former U.S. Ambassador to Norway L. Corrin Strong. The Pollock was bought with money donated by Pickle and Soup Tycoon Henry J. Heinz II through the American Friends of the Tate, of which Ambassador John Hay ("Jock") Whitney is president...
...title winners, observers will be watching the over-all point totals to see where the Straus Trophy will go this June. In the 23-year history of the Trophy, Kirkland has won it 12 times, Dunster four, Lowell three, Eliot and Leverett two times each. Winthrop, the so-called jock House of the campus, has never won the trophy...
Cronin first met young Armstrong-Jones in 1958 when Cronin was buttling for U.S. Ambassador "Jock" Whitney, and Armstrong-Jones arrived to take some photographs. "I will say at once," wrote Cronin, clearly in the grip of a remembered passion, "that I was taken aback by Mr. Jones's manner of dress. His coat, if memory serves me, was of leather, and unbuttoned; his trousers much too tight, and of an eccentric material." Cronin confesses that "I betrayed my disapproval on my face and in the unenthusiastic way I announced him to the Ambassador...
...JOCK McFARLANE...