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...London home had been robbed in March, decided: "It is just not our year." Jockey Sir Gordon Richards, on the other hand, was convinced that there is some honor among thieves when his stolen spurs and gold cigarette case, a gift from King George V, turned up in the Scotland Yard mailbag after his public appeals to the thief's "sportsmanship...
...Scotland Yard began a search for Christie. A London bobby recognized him in a Putney street, arrested him. The state based its case against him solely on the murder of his wife. At the trial, instead of denying the murder, his attorneys enlarged upon his crimes. In the witness box Christie described the seven killings. Victim No. 1 was Austria-born Ruth Margaret Fuerst, met in a snack bar in 1943, brought home to No. 10 during his wife's absence. Said Christie, scratching his head and licking his lips: "Well, I strangled her. I seem to remember...
...Dundee, Scotland, U.S. Open Golf Champion Ben Hogan, warming up for the British Open, arched Scottish eyebrows by posting consecutive scores of 69 and 70 for his first two practice rounds on the rugged, 7,200-yd Carnoustie course. Record for the course in tournament competition...
...acres of grounds, including the nine-hole golf course and the badminton and tennis courts. The manse itself is furnished with such creature comforts as antique chairs valued at $1,000 each and a $10,000 Persian carpet. Under construction near by is a new church, modeled after Scotland's Melrose Abbey, that wilt have cost about $3½ million by the time it is finished sometime...
...conservatives maintained their rear-guard action: Coleridge, brilliantly insisting that society was losing its soul because it was fascinated by means, forgetful of ends; ("Men, I think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.") Sir Walter Scott, defending Scotland's ancient laws against Bentham's passion for reform, warning that local tradition could not be erased without damage, writing the Waverley Novels as tracts for conservatism, as reminders of the moral debt that the present owed to principles of liberty and order won by the past; Disraeli...