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...Montreux, some 50 miles away. She told her mother she would be back on Sunday. The friend? Mrs. Dunbar was not sure. A "Mr. Robin," she thought her daughter had said. Sunday passed, then Monday, with no sign of the MacLeans. Mrs. Dunbar notified the British Foreign Office. Two Scotland Yard detectives sped to the scene, but they found no trace of the MacLeans...
...Lord Beaverbrook. Puckishly traveling incognito as "Mr. Hyde," although 300 well-wishers gathered at London Airport to see him off and several hundred more met him at Cap d'Ail, Sir Winston was accompanied by his daughter Mary and her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, two secretaries and three Scotland Yard inspectors. "Cap d'Ail has received its mayor in a fitting manner," he remarked as the townspeople cheered him as their "honorary mayor" (a title conferred a year ago). "I have come to rest and paint," Churchill told reporters. "This is a holiday and I have a strong...
...wild, tattooed Picts, who kept the northern end of the island in continual uproar. Fenced off at last by the famed Roman walls, the Picts remained as a troublesome relic of barbarism on the edge of the Roman empire. In Archaeology, J.R.C. Hamilton, assistant inspector of ancient monuments for Scotland, tells about excavations that reveal how the wild Picts lived...
...Master of Ballantrae. Wielding his trusty claymore, Errol Flynn hacks his way from Scotland to the New World and back in a rousing film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's 18th century thriller (TIME...
...fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S. Back in Russia after the 1917 revolution. Borodin soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary movement under Sun Yatsen. With some Moscow gold and his own silver tongue, he engineered a working alliance between Communists and Nationalists, showed Sun Yat-sen how to organize the Kuomintang on the tight Moscow pattern, including...