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Died. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, 76, unorthodox former rector of Manhattan's venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie; in Washington. Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas...
Major General Robert Eliot ("Roy") Urquhart, 42-year-old, Scottish-born, red-bereted commander of the gallant British Red Devils, who fought through nine days of hell at Arnhem, was knighted as a Commander of the Bath...
Eddie Corstorphine, Scottish-born Presbyterian, got a conscientious objector's discharge from the Canadian Navy after four and a half years of war at sea. He had met & married Phyllis Lawrence of Guelph, Ont. She had converted him to Christadelphianism, a 96-year-old. Brooklyn-born faith which does not tolerate killing, prohibits military service "until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth...
...Born. To the late, great Raider Orde Charles Wingate, 41, bush-bearded jungle general, killed in a Burma plane crash (TIME, April 10); and Lorna Wingate, 26, his beauteous, Scottish-born widow: their first child, a son; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...imperious, volatile, high-spirited child. To her stern, regal grandmother Queen Mary, and her gentle, Scottish-born mother Queen Elizabeth, fell the task of curbing her. While others crammed her mind with languages, history and rules of statecraft, they had to strip her spirit of every inclination to caprice. The maternal admonition ran: "You are not a fairy-tale princess, but a real...