Word: loch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singers got off the Cunarder Saxoma at Greenock, Scotland, lined up on the pier on the River Clyde and began to sing (Loch Lomond). They kept singing all the way across Britain, Holland, Denmark and Germany-in crowded auditoriums, sight-seeing buses, third-class railway carriages and even on the streets. They had their share of crises, including-at Scheveningen, Holland-the loss of the conductor's white dress waistcoat (two local tailors provided a new one in exchange for a pair of tickets). Everywhere they are stirring up waves of good feeling and applause. Salt Lake City...
...landing in France wearing plastic helmets, orange corsets or Cellophane wrappers. Now a 32-year-old British thrilier-writer, amateur stargazer and bird watcher named Cedric Allingham reveals that he bumped into a six-foot Martian last Feb. 18 on a lonely Scottish moor not far from where the Loch Ness monster used to sport...
...morning, workmen found that some 30 of the Urania's master electrical cables had been cut clean through. The damage postponed the Urania's readiness by a month, and will cost thousands of pounds. One day last week, electric wiring was cut on the frigate Loch Lomond, undergoing repairs at Bristol, and on the submarine Turpin, which is at Chatham for installation of secret equipment to help her evade detection by hostile surface craft...
Died. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 74, second Duke of Westminster and one of the world's richest landlords; of coronary thrombosis; in Loch More, Scotland. Reportedly worth $168 million in inherited real estate (e.g.. 200,000 acres of farmland, 600 acres of London's West End. including the site of the U.S. embassy), the fun-loving duke was a World War I hero, a collector of great art (e.g., Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), and a ladies' man (four marriages, three divorces). To celebrate his third marriage (to Socialite Loelia Ponsonby) in 1930, he granted...
Last week in desperation, the Duke of Montrose took an ad in the paper, offered Buchanan, complete with its 40 bedrooms, 16 baths, 40 acres of woodlands, nine acres of gardens and incomparable view of Loch Lomond, for $28 a week to anyone who would keep the place in repair...