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Director Heil will hang a photograph of each subject beside his autoportrait. Says he: "The painter, when he stands ... before a mirror, is for once scot-free. . . If he does not quite like his face, he can subtly improve on it. ... Comparison with the 'objective' photographs will let us detect this easily...
Died. Sir Patrick Duncan, 72, Governor General of the Union of South Africa since 1937; of cancer; in Pretoria. A grey-thatched, firm-lipped Scot, Duncan studied at Oxford's Balliol College, became a barrister of the Inner Temple, entered colonial service in 1894. He rose to be Minister of the Interior, Public Health and Education (1921-24), was the first South African citizen to become Governor General...
...Capetown a woman who had given birth to a baby two hours before pushed her doctor aside and rode by taxi to vote. In Durban another woman arrived by ambulance, was carried on a stretcher into the polling hall. In Smuts's own constituency, Standerton, a septuagenarian Scot, recovering from a heart attack, insisted on voting for Smuts, collapsed and died before he could make his cross...
...that hero's flamboyancy. His voice is so loud that he has no need for bull horns in battle. His eyes have a mariner's sadness, but he has plenty of wit. His pleasure is the sailor's hobby, gardening, and his hero is a fiery Scot, James Graham, Marquess of Montrose, one of the most colorful fighters, and a vigorous poetaster, of the 17th Century. His principal indulgence is the sending of very British dispatches, and in those dispatches lies the flavor of both A.B.C. and World War II in the Mediterranean...
...With a Purpose. Kenneth Anderson brings to the First Army a cosmopolitan point of view which it needs-fighting as it is with French and Americans against Germans and Italians on French, and perhaps eventually Italian, soil. His background is broad. He is a Scot. He was born in India on Christmas, 1891. He was educated in England at Charterhouse and Sandhurst. He fought in France, Syria and Palestine in World War I. Between wars he traveled widely in the Middle East, from Tibet to the Mediterranean. He has spoken French since boyhood and has a good working knowledge...