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Stories about a Thorpe-Scott relationship had quietly circulated before, and in 1971, with Scotland Yard's help, they were privately investigated by Liberal Party elders. Scott was questioned about his accusations and collapsed under crossexamination. The Liberal leaders then accepted Thorpe's denial. When Scott trumpeted his story this year, former Liberal Chief Whip Cyril Smith immediately pronounced it "ludicrous." But next day Thorpe's credibility suffered a major jolt when his longtime friend Peter Bessell, a former Liberal M.P. who moved to the U.S. in 1974 following a financial scrape in Britain, admitted that...
...hard day of work. Before wooden tees were ever invented, small mounds of wet sand served the purpose. The result was that caddies traipsed along the fairway with troughs of wet sand slung around their necks before it dawned on the members of the Innerleven golf course in Fife, Scotland to install stationary sand boxes on each...
...Snowdons' circle of friends narrowed, Margaret called an old chum in Scotland one day in 1973 and announced she was coming for the weekend. There she met Roddy Llewellyn...
...Story. Chambers' specific complaints were of obsolete arms, poor food, no pay and no discipline on the part of the beleaguered F.N.L.A. forces. Last week, though, other returning British mercenaries told a far grimmer story-of comrades who had been summarily executed by their own leaders. According to Scotland Yard, who questioned the mercenaries on their return, a notorious F.N.L.A. mercenary known as "Colonel Callan" ordered 14 men to be shot after accusing them of "cowardice in the face of the enemy" when they asked to be sent home. "Callan," upon investigation, proved to be Costas Georgiou...
...make liberal use of handkerchiefs, tears, and smelling salts. Vapid young men simper about in absurd clothes, worrying only about the make of their Hessians and the height of their collars. Brainless beauties fall desperately in love with ineligible fortune hunters and threaten to elope across the border to Scotland in the face of their family's disapproval. These other, less competent characters make Heyer's novels witty, as well as sentimental--they are constantly embroiling themselves in absurd engagements to avoid the disgrace of having been found alone with a member of the other sex, discovering they...