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Last week Leo Fitzpatrick, doughty Celtic manager of Detroit's WJR and radio adviser to Father Coughlin switched off Tommy Dorsey's band right in the middle of their swing. The trouble was they were swinging Loch Lomond. Said Manager Fitzpatrick: "It is a sacrilege to make a swing version of a tune sacred to a lot of Scotsmen." Cleveland's WGAR and Beverly Hill's KMPC nodded their heads, pursed their lips and proclaimed a ban on swing versions of eleven old songs, including Comin' Thro' the Rye. At Manhattan's Onyx...
Perhaps TIME in its wisdom can solve a problem concerning monsters. The Loch Ness creature mentioned in TIME, May 3, does not seem to be a very pretentious beast. Fifty feet is about the greatest length claimed for it, and there is no mention of its having spoken to anyone, or even of its having devoured anyone...
...hundred of the Fiana came out of the beast alive, including the son of the King of Greece, but their clothes were gone, and they were hairless thereafter. Fionn Loch, White Lake, had been the name of the lake where the monster resided. From that day on, it was called Loch Dearg, Red Lake. Loch Dearg is in Donegal, in Ireland...
Scotland's modest soft. Loch Ness monster "Nessy" at least has this over Ireland's Loch Dearg creature: photographic views of it have been published by the Illustrated London News and the New York Times...
Whatever the Monster was, it was a godsend to Loch Ness hotelkeepers, tourist agencies, omnibus operators. At the height of the 1934 excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus...