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...welcome visitor, an unusually satisfying thriller. Playwright Knott is not only more ingenious than most members of the current Spine Trust, but being British is more urbane as well. Maurice Evans has abandoned battlements and blank verse to play a dinner-jacketed modern villain, while John Williams, as a Scotland Yard inspector, sees justice done with engaging suavity...
...well-dressed college man buys his vests for considerably more, and buys considerably better vests. Plaid vests, graced with the old clans of Scotland, sold well last year, so much so that even plaid coats made a brief appearance in the Square...
Married. Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, 40, the former Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, daughter of the late Lord Sempill, whose name and sex were officially changed (TIME, Sept. 22) after a gradual, nonsurgical course of treatment; and his housekeeper Isabella Mitchell, 37; both for the first time; in Alford, Scotland...
...Robert P. Madison to study architecture at the National Higher School of Fine Arts, Paris; Ralph E. Matlaw to study comp. lit. at the Univ. of Paris; John W. McCoubrey to study art history at the Univ. of Paris; Wallace McDonald to study history at the Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland; Lawrence Moe to study musicology at the G. B. Martini Conservatory at Bologna, Italy; William A. Morrison to study sociology at the Univ. of Bombay; Don Page to study architecture at the Polytechnic Institute, Milan; Theodore W. Patterson to study city planning at the Univ. of London...
Died. John Cobb, 52, London fur broker and world's auto speed champion (394.19 m.p.h. for one mile, at Utah's Bonneville Flats in 1947); in a speedboat accident; on Scotland's Loch Ness. Trying to break the world's one-mile speedboat record (178.4 m.p.h. held by Seattle's Stanley Sayres), Cobb gunned his jet-propelled "Crusader" hydroplane to about 200 m.p.h., was roaring toward the end of the course's first measured mile when the boat began skipping erratically and, in sight of his wife and friends, exploded in a cloud...