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Reston is a "newcomer" who caught the boss's eye early. Born in Clydebank, Scotland, Reston came to the U.S. to live at the age of ten. He graduated from the University of Illinois, did a short stint as a pressagent for the Cincinnati Reds, then worked as a sportswriter and later as a London correspondent...
LAURENCE D. M. WEDDERBURN Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland...
...symbol of the sad conflict of civilization and savagery, a leader of his people who used the skills civilization taught him to give savagery a new kind of power. He was an orphan, a ten-year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician," he later wrote, "and in traveling about with him and carrying...
...times since, Sutherland has come to London to take up his vigil near the trains, hopeful that Wilfred will step out of one of them. When help from the R.A.F. and Scotland Yard reached a dead end, Sutherland had pictures of his son enlarged and distributed, with an offer of a reward for fruitful information. Sutherland stubbornly hangs on to the belief that his son will come back to London for another Easter holiday. "As long as I live," he vowed, "I'll be here at Easter, waiting...
...pious but practical young pastor. Otto Dibelius noticed these things. The professors at his seminary had taught him that a pastor should never enter the homes of his parishioners. "If you do," one instructor warned, "the mantle of Elijah will surely fall from your shoulders." In Scotland, as a student of the established church, Pastor Dibelius learned differently. Back in Germany, after months of observing the ways of his Calvinist brethren, he startled some of his colleagues by mixing freely with his parishioners and encouraging them to be active in the life of the church. Once, while...