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Despite Paine's example, capital journalism languished until another immigrant, Scottish-born James Gordon Bennett, arrived on the Washington scene in 1827. As special correspondent for the New York Enquirer, he quizzed administrative leaders, exposed corruption, and went to capital balls. Because of his partisanship to Andrew Jackson, he was fed the first official "leaks." He also became the first professional newsman to interview a President. "I went up to His Excellency," wrote Bennett after an audience with Martin Van Buren in 1839. "He held out his hand. It was soft and oily...
Divorced. By Deborah Kerr, 37, Scottish-born cinemactress (From Here to Eternity): Anthony Bartley, 40, British TV producer, one of the fighter-pilot heroes of the Battle of Britain; after 14 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Yutang in The Importance of Living, his bestseller of 21 years ago. Today, suave, slight Dr. Lin. 63, is an orphan no longer. Last Sunday he sat in the congregation of his new church-Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church-and listened attentively to the sermon of its Scottish-born pastor, the Rev. David Read. Afterward, puffing a pipe in the sun-filled living room of his modern apartment on Manhattan's East Side, the onetime pagan explained his new position...
...months ago. Returning as a director, senior vice president and member of the operations committee, Foote will concentrate on creative advertising and marketing. ¶Robert Paxton, 56, was elected president of General Electric Co., biggest electrical manufacturer in the world (1957 sales: $4,335,664,061). Paxton, a Scottish-born, U.S.-educated (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1923) engineer, moved up as President Ralph J. Cordiner, who will continue as chief executive officer, was elected board chairman to succeed Philip D. Reed, who retired...
Died. Jack Buchanan, sixtyish, versatile British song-and-danceman, TV performer and London theater owner; of spinal arthritis; in London. Scottish-born Buchanan once taught Laurence Olivier how to twirl a cane and twinkle his feet, was a leading comic at 19, made his first of many Broadway appearances in Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924 (with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence...