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Died. Lieut. Colonel Frederick Gerard Peake, 83, British officer who founded the Arab Legion in Transjordan; of pneumonia; in Kelso, Scotland Peake got his desert experience under the famed Lawrence of Arabia in World War I, was then given his own command as inspector general of gendarmerie in Transjordan in 1921. The 1,200-man legion he organized ranged 'over 34,000 sq. mi. of mountainous desert policing some 300,000 people and proved to be the most efficient military force in the entire Arab world...
Laborious Stages. First conceived in Great Britain in the 1930s, the project was interrupted by World War II, then revived in 1946, when the Church of Scotland passed a formal resolution calling for a new translation in "the language of the present day." By January 1948, Great Britain's other principal Protestant churches and Bible societies had joined with the Scots and the Oxford and Cambridge presses to form a joint committee to undertake the translation. The work was entrusted to three panels of biblical scholars-one for the Old Testament, one for the New, one for the Apocrypha...
...McKay was the grandson of Scottish and Welsh immigrants, Mormon converts, who settled in Utah in the mid-19th century. Born near Ogden on a farm that he maintained until his death, McKay followed his father, a farmer-teacher, into education. But a turn as a church missionary in Scotland involved him ever after in church affairs, and by 1906, at the age of 32, he was called to membership in the Council of the Twelve Apostles, the church's governing body...
Different Needs. From the 10,000 schoolchildren who were their sources, the Opies collected the unwritten rules for 2,500 games that are now played in England, Scotland and Wales, and they traced their historic origins. Like many of the verses in the Opies' now-classic volumes on the origins of nursery rhymes (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), many of today's games are centuries old. Blindman's buff, ducks and drakes, hide and seek, and tug-of-war were enjoyed by children in Plato's Greece. Ancient Egypt knew the finger-flashing game of paper-scissors...
Lord Strathnaver, 23, heir to one of Scotland's largest estates, replete with 90-room castle, has completed his training at Hendon, and will now pound a London beat as Constable Alistair Sutherland, the only titled bobby in the realm. "I dislike crime." explained the young Oxford grad. His family motto: "Without Fear...