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...dean, Washington Cathedral picked the rector of St. Paul's Church, Cleveland, the Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., 36, son of the former U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and grandson of Woodrow Wilson...
When Scottish Nationalist Dr. John MacCormick, Glasgow's new rector (TIME, Oct. 30), stood up to make his acceptance speech in St. Andrew's Halls, he was greeted with a shower of overripe tomatoes, firecrackers, toilet paper and bursting flour sacks. His address, which he manfully finished in spite of it all, was punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics...
...Rector MacCormick plowed on about home rule for Scotland, even after a couple of faculty members, hit by rotten eggs, gave up and withdrew. When it was all over, MacCormick dabbed at egg and tomato stains on his robes, said tersely: "One of the liveliest installations I've ever seen...
Then someone drew attention to a novel called The North Wind of Love, written in 1944 by Scottish Nationalist Compton Mackenzie, onetime rector of Glasgow University, in which he describes a group of Scottish college graduates who conspire to liberate the Stone, but are exposed at the last moment. Said jubilant Author Mackenzie last week: "I hope I may have given good advice to the young men who carried out this successful effort and shown them what to avoid ... No patriotic Scot could help having a feeling of elation." Mysterious stickers appeared on Glasgow shop fronts: "Would you keep stolen...
...your readers know that Benjamin Woodbridge was the first graduate of Harvard College? He left England, when a boy, for America in 1629, and was Harvard's first student in 1642, Returning to England, when a young man, he became Rector of Newbury, which living he held for the first two years of Charles H's reign. He refused to conform and became the Minister of the United Presbyterians and Independents. Until his death in 1864 he was revered as "a wholly able and painful minister." G. B. Suggett Newbury, Berks. England