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...Scottish border, went to Oxford on Caledonian determination and a shoestring, published his first book (Scholar Gipsies) to help pay his college expenses. He was admitted to the bar, but his life work really began when he was made Private-Secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. From Milner and Kitchener he absorbed an extraordinary philosophy of empire which inspired him to the end of his days. This philosophy, which the later John Buchan found increasingly hard to talk about, may have been propagated and enforced by Kiplingesque brutality but had no spiritual kinship with it. Saluting...
...duty. When his great friend and hero George V sent him to Ottawa in 1935, when he had already made an imperial name for himself as a novelist and biographer and had adjudged himself too old for a career in Parliament, John Buchan sprang into action like one of Milner's young war horses, did a difficult job as ably as his teachers did theirs a generation before...
...Blumer, Wellesley Allen D. Sapp, Jr. Elsie L. Jones, The Baldwin School Compton Sargent Cynthia Sargent, Beaver Country Day Edward L. Sawyer Mary L. Larson, Watertown Mark P. Schalefer June Yosell, Swampscott John M. Scanlon Martha Hastings, Clinton Mark P. Schorger Diana Fraser, Radcliffe James L. Schwab, Jr. Lucy Milner, Dalton School Lionel a. Schwartz Marcia Rosen, Boston Joseph C. Scott Jeanne Owens, Belmont Thomas W. Sears, Jr. Mande Fellowes, Jamestown, R. I. John R. Shattuck Mardi Dickson, Endicott Junior College Melvin I. Shoul Anne T. Joyce, Trinity Ralph T. Siegler Zelda Sobel, Brooklyn College Herbert R. Silverman Connie Flint...
...with the help of scholarships and by writing, even before he left Oxford, his first book, Scholar-Gypsies. He went up to London, was admitted to the bar, then, on the strength of his brilliant record at Oxford, was made secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa, Lord Milner. In South Africa he turned soldier, served for the last year of the Boer War as a trooper in the Rand Mounted Rifles. He stayed there for two more years, learning about colonial administration from Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener...
California has this year the biggest rush of tourists in its history, has taken from them at least $100,000,000 of new business. For this a quiet, gangling Texan named Clyde Milner Vandeburg (32), director of Fair promotion, and his assistant, beaming Crompton Bangs Jr. (29), former G-Man are largely responsible. Two years ago Promoter Vandeburg talked Fair managers into selling their Big Show rs a peg on which to hang a national campaign of travel to eleven far-western States instead of merely plugging San Francisco. To tie the westward movement into a national travel merry...