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...barracks somewhere in Scotland's dour landscape, a battalion of Highlanders is waging a pretty grim peace under the command of Colonel Jock Sinclair...
...Jock had bravely led the battalion in war, but barracks life is another matter. He is as full of guts, and as hard to take, as a haggis. He sows as much terror among his subalterns as he ever did among the enemy, and runs his mess on lines calculated to make dinner with the Macbeths and Banquo's ghost seem like afternoon tea. And because he had been a ranker who had risen from the gutters of Glasgow, he is a figure of awe and almost superstitious regard to the kilted men who swill their usquebaugh and sweat...
Despite its current appellation as the "Jock" House, Winthrop remains one of the most versatile yet homogeneous houses at Harvard...
...John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real zest for getting around, would bring a "new start in this respect." The Telegraph also retrospectively hailed "the new Ambassador's firm break with the more absurd social conventions of New York society." In Tokyo, meanwhile, Career Diplomat Douglas MacArthur II, bearer...
Gone from the Nazis. In World War II Jock Whitney was a public-relations and liaison officer (colonel) in the Air Corps, an agreeable berth that was disrupted one day during the invasion of Southern France when he headed his jeep beyond the American positions and got captured. When the Nazis packed him off north in a boxcar along lines that the Allies were bombing, coolheaded Jock Whitney regaled his fellow P.W.s with a running commentary-"Now they're peeling off to come in! God, it's lovely! Now the first one is leveling off!" During...