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...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's three-year-old race horse Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the Withers Stakes, feature race of the week at Long Island's Belmont Park; by two lengths, with Charing Cross second. Morning before the race, Flying Cross, owned by Jock Whitney's cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt (''Sonny") Whitney, and also entered in the Withers, fell dead of heart failure while being exercised...
...Pedro, Calif., Scot Comedian Sir Harry Lauder, 66, disembarked from a Pacific cruise financed, he chortled, by 10? pieces saved up during his career...
Furthermore the story which the better half of "Me and Paul" narrated at the Yardling annual was very much apropos. Had wily Scot McKechnie been able to call upon a black Frank Merriwell in the stands, he might well have used the slugger in place of Vincent DiMaggio's fourth appearance at the platter. For after disturbing the ozone on three previous third strikes, Vince was called out the last time...
...sent bigwig delegations to what was technically a meeting of the Sugar section of the World Economic Conference of 1933 which technically is still in an "adjournment." Away back when it used to meet, the name of James Ramsay MacDonald still rang big, and last week this hoary Scot was again in the chairman's seat of what looked like a full-size International Conference of the sort he loved so well as British Prime Minister. Once more, and perhaps for the last time, the imposing Locarno Room of the Foreign Office echoed to his noble Scottish burr...
...papers, trade papers. His range of publications includes such variety as the Daily Herald, with a 2,000,000 circulation, Weekly Illustrated, Debrett (Britain's social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ put out by Odhams is John Dunbar, a Scot with a rich brogue. Elias, who has never written a newspaper story in his life, is the firm's financial spearhead. His wealth is impossible to gauge for he never publishes a financial statement. Odhams ranks so high, however, that when Elias put out a big bond issue last...