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...American-in Worcester, Mass.-but marriage to a Scottish laird made her a loyal Briton by more than simple law. Her husband was Sir Alexander MacRobert, baronet and laird of Douneside and Cromar, Aberdeenshire, one of that band of hardy Scots who went forth to build the Empire, making Scotland proud and England great. When he died in 1922, he left a million-dollar estate; Lady MacRobert herself became a director of the British India Corp. Ltd., which he had founded...
...whose diocese is in the East zone and who has time and again defied the Communists; Archbishop Michael 62, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John Baillie, 68, onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. There were other delegates, some hitherto obscure, who made their mark at Evanston. Among the outstanding leaders...
BISHOP LESSLIE NEWBIGIN, 44, a Newcastle shipowner's son who went to India as a Church of Scotland missionary 17 years ago, became one of the first bishops of the new Church of South India. In his diocese most people are still so poor that ministers cannot live on their salaries, have to find other work. Says the bishop: "Ours may largely be a tentmaking ministry, in the sense that St. Paul supported himself as a tentmaker." At Evanston brilliant, hard-driving Bishop Newbigin is head of the committee charged with drafting the assembly's final message...
...Last week another threatening letter arrived, this time setting the day for the execution: Aug. 25. Wrote the threatener: "I stake my life against his. He will not live the day ... I promise BBC one thing-After August 24, a new television announcer." Said Gray, as he agreed to Scotland Yard protection: "I am taking this seriously...
Exit Dunlop. While Scotland's John Dunlop first thought of putting his pneumatic tires on bicycles, it took an Irishman to gaze into the spinning wheels and see a fortune. Dublin Paper Merchant Harvey Du Cros, father of three famed bicycle racers, needed only to see his sons beaten by a man on Dunlop tires before he set to work. He promptly organized a tire company, persuaded Dunlop to join him, and with classic forethought predicted in his prospectus: "The pneumatic tyre will be almost indispensable for ladies and persons with delicate nerves...