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Silence! He was thus a very American Catholic theologian. Born on Manhattan's 19th Street to a Scottish-born lawyer father and an Irish mother, both of whom were Catholics, the boy had shown an interest in medicine as a profession. But he joined the Jesuits at 16, and after earning an M.A. at Boston College, spent three years teaching in the Philippines. Then there was more study-four years of theology at the Jesuits' Woodstock College in Maryland, four years of graduate theology at the Gregorian University in Rome-before returning to Woodstock as professor of theology...
Married. Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 73, Scottish-born scientist who was knighted in 1942 for helping to win the Battle of Britain as the principal inventor of radar; and Dame Katherine Forbes, 66, wartime head of the R.A.F. women's auxiliary; he for the third time, she for the first; in London...
...community leaders. The magazines couldn't care less about trumpeting any particular ideology or identifying with any political party. "Some of the staunchest conservatives in their political philosophy are among the most liberal when it comes to getting things done in the city," says Edwin Self, 45, Scottish-born editor of San Diego...
What Fleming's literary critics overlook is that in transferring Bond from fiction to film, and endowing him with all the attributes of Scottish-born Actor Sean Connery, a new twist has been added. Says Chief Scriptwriter Richard Maibaum in the current Esquire: "The common denominator is deadpan spoofing. We know it, the audience knows it, yet they are perfectly willing to alternately believe and disbelieve what is happening on the screen." To help illusion along, there are not only gadgets galore - Bond's tricked up Aston-Martin is now a main attraction...
...sacrificing example, that a strictly disciplined Army is the way to do it, and that the Army should preferably be commanded (despite its worldwide growth) by a General from Great Britain. Last week its 49 territorial commissioners closed their door to all out siders and in four ballots chose Scottish-born Frederick L. Coutts, 64, for the job first held by William Booth (1865-1912), later by Booth's son Bramwell and his daughter Evangeline, and most recently by General Wilfred Kitching...