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Soon buglers sounded the calls requested by the Archbishop; but most touching of all was the playing by Scotch bagpipers of an old lament which was the favorite of Britain's greatest War hero, the late Field Marshal Earl Haig, Laird of Bemersyde (TIME, Feb. 6, 13). Softly the pipers played "The Flowers of the Forest"; and British lips repeated afterwards the motto of the House of Haig: What e're betide, What e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde...
...Corp. telephoned lawyers of John D. Rockefeller last week. Mr. Rockefeller and his friends owned 95,000 shares of American Linseed Co.'s preferred stock, and President Morrow wanted that preferred stock as a good beginning toward buying full control of American Linseed. Later he would deal with Laird, Bissell & Meeds (investment bankers) and others who owned American Linseed common stock...
...elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept of how to win the War was to husband large reserves...
Died. Douglas Haig, 66, first Earl Haig, 20th Laird of Bemerside, Com- mander-in-chief of the British armies in the War; in London; of heart failure...
...away time, Army flyers stunted over the field. Specks appeared in the eastern sky. The winner of the Class B race was C. W. Meyers of Detroit, flying a Waco plane. Twelve minutes ahead of Flyer Meyers had landed C. W. Holman of St. Paul, flying a Wright-motored Laird biplane. He was winner in the Class A race for larger planes over a similar course but, with fewer stops, had flown in two days instead of three. Mr. Holman's prize was $10,000. Fifteen planes started. Richard E. Hud son and his mechanic, Jay Radike, were killed...