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...McLean, Va. a British teacher evolved a whole new science program for the Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said...
However, the stimulus of directors and actors like Aaron, Scot, Colgate Salsbury '57, D.J. Sullivan '57, and john H. Poppy '57--students with more than amateur interest in drama--caused a re-evaluation of House productions. Quality became so important that every effort was made to "get the best man for the part," even if he were not a member of the particular House...
Izett Was a Scot. To help get the research done for her weekly deadlines, Mary Ellis Peltz relies on an ever-changing relay of would-be writers, young students who serve their operatic apprenticeship with her the way others serve in claques or work as spear bearers, then go on to a semester or two in Europe. For publishable articles they get $15 to $25. In order to thin the ranks of contributors. Editor Peltz subjects them to quick research jobs on what she anachronistically calls "$64 questions." Samples: ¶ Was Gaetano Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor) a Scotsman? For years...
Behind their efforts lay several generations of sleuthing. Until 1905, even the whereabouts of John Paul Jones's corpse was a mystery. After his death in Paris from nephritis in 1792, the body of the Scot who fathered the U.S. Navy was prepared for shipment to the U.S. The limbs were encased in tinfoil; the body was wrapped in a shroud and then was placed in a sealed, straw-and alcohol-filled lead casket. But the U.S. frugally refused to pay the freight. Hero Jones was unceremoniously buried in Paris' obscure St. Louis Cemetery, where he lay undisturbed...
Chop Suey in the Air. Like the millionaire Scot steelmaker whose surname she borrowed, Hattie started life in rags. Born in a Vienna ghetto, she came to the U.S. when she was six, and with her six brothers and sisters, grew up in the jungle of Manhattan's Lower East Side. When she was 13 her father died, and Hattie went to work as a messenger in Macy's basement. Even then, rotating a wardrobe of one skirt and three blouses, she had style and taste. Rose Roth, a neighborhood seamstress, noticed it, and persuaded Hattie to model...