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...Chicago, Mrs. Helen Johnson sued her Scotch husband, Arthur, for divorce. Claimed she: He would not let her use a vacuum cleaner lest it wear out the rugs; he would wake before the alarm clock's orison to save the spring; on July 4, he bought the children no firecrackers but ran about the house shouting "BOOM...
...stage the revue type of entertainment. Among these are: Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun. Claiming the Earl of Mar as an ancestor, she built herself a medieval castle in Chevy Chase, called it "Rossdhu, Braemar Forest." She displays Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword in a glass case. She has Scotch evenings at which her Tennessee husband appears in kilts. At a ball last winter she personified "The Spirit of the Middle Ages...
...four royal nurses?Purdie (English), Gordon (Scotch), Black (Irish) and Davies (Welsh)?were paid weekly from five to eight pounds apiece ($24-$38), and will receive from His Majesty personally "a substantial gift" according to an announcement last week at Buckingham Palace. About £3,000 ($14,580) was spent to install the special anti-fog machinery which purified the air in George V's bed- room (TIME, Dec. 17), and was considered indispensable in saving his life. To set up a special pharmacy in the Palace and keep it staffed day and night with the most expert drug...
Since the three British parties (Conservative, Liberal and Laborite) have all booked their halls and arranged their radio broadcasts on the basis of May 30 as Election Day, the indomitable Scotch divines could not well have devised a more cunning means of embarrassing God-fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), who set the election date, yet can ill afford to lose the vote of a Single Scottish Conservative...
Died. Alexander Melville, of Glasgow, who wrote many of Scotch Comedian Harry Lauder's famed songs ("Killie-crankie," "Tobermory," "Risin' Early in the Mornin' "); in Glasgow. He, liberal, grew poor, lived on the charity of friends...