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...other city in the world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...
Died. Ellen MacRorie, 90, Scottish-born childhood nurse of Franklin Delano Roosevelt; in Hamilton...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...Author. Sylvia Thompson (Mrs. Peter Luling), 28, is a Scottish-born descendant of Oliver Cromwell, married to a U. S. painter. She was "sent down" (expelled) from Somerville College, Oxford, for not working. She thinks men & women should go to separate universities.. With her husband and their two daughters, she lives in a Cotswold cottage near Stratford-on-Avon. A story-teller from infancy, Sylvia Thompson made up a story when she was four which her family still like better than anything she has written since. It ended: "And when she came around the corner, what do you think...
...Tommy Armour, one-eyed, Scottish-born professional of Detroit: by one hole, the Professional Golfers' Association championship, at Fresh Meadow Country Club, L. I., sinking a 12-ft. putt on the 36th hole against Gene Sarazen. ¶ Jimmy McLarnin, 140-lb. Pacific Coast Irishman: a fight at the Yankee Stadium, New York, from Al Singer, who won the world's lightweight championship two months ago (TIME, July 28) from battered Sammy Mandell; by a knockout; after 2 min. 21 sec. of the third round. McLarnin won no title because of the differences in weight...