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...Arthur, Conservative member of Parliament for the Scot-constituency of Perth and East Perthshire, left the Summer School's International Seminar last and returned to London to vote on a motion of censure introduced against his party by Labour Party leader, Hugh Gaitskell...
...academy is not letting doolies off scot-free. To the hectoring question, "Mister, what is your altitude?" they must still recite the laborious answer...
ALEXANDER WILSON, by Robert Cantwell (318 pp.; Lippincott; $ 15). Wilson, a turbulent and visionary Scot, was the first of America's great painters of birds. He reached the colonies in 1794, explored great reaches of wilderness, and used the sketches and notes he brought back for a monumental work, American Ornithology. Author Cantwell's biography is a work of skill and love. The book is handsomely laid out, and illustrated in color with eight of Wilson's bird drawings...
...Christmas. Heppenstall's The Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took...
...other changes, students will be expected to pay cash for fines under $1. According to James, the Bursar's Office has informed him that the high cost of bureaucracy makes collection of small fines a losing proposition. "Students were getting off scot-free," James said...