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First prize went to Pipe-Major Robert Reid, a tightly muscled Glasgow bagpipe-maker and veteran of two wars. Said he: "I would never have played the pipes if it hadna bin for ma father, but he was a stern mon and kept me to it ever since I was six years old." Pipe-Major Reid's twelve-year-old son is doing very well on the chanter, a pipe without the bag-but, said Reid, "he winna take...
Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling's son, Kirkpatrick, sued his ex-mother-in-law for alienation of affections, two years after his wife divorced him. Mrs. Reid Bronson, the ex-mother-in-law, retorted that Dilling had "lured" her daughter by "claiming he was heir to ... $100,000 . . . and would take her to ... a Swiss chalet." Mother Dilling managed to get into the act. Said she: "It's all a New Deal smear...
Last week N.Y.U. named its first full-time Negro professor: Dr. Ira Reid, 45, able chairman of Atlanta University's sociology department. His new one-year post: "visiting professor of Negro culture and education...
Southern-born Ira Reid went to Atlanta's Morehouse College, did graduate work at the London School of Economics, took a Ph.D. at Columbia. Says he: "There will be 6 ft. 4 of the Negro problem standing up before the students. I do not need to discuss it separately...
...William Reid Crosett...