Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary (accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938 and riding with him behind Hitler and Mussolini through cheering Nazi crowds). After succeeding to the earldom in 1951 and taking his seat in the House of Lords he served as Scottish Secretary and later as Commonwealth Secretary and leader of the House of Lords...
Married. Deborah Kerr, 38, Scottish-born cinemactress (From Here to Eternity, Tea and Sympathy); and Peter Viertel, 40, Austrian-born screenwriter (The Sun Also Rises, African Queen); she for the second time, he for the third (her first: British TV Producer Anthony Bartley; his first: French Fashion Model Bettina); in Klosters, Switzerland...
...Clarinetist Davis got was the opportunity to play under, and observe, Conductor Fritz Busch as a member of the Glyndebourne Orchestra. Davis then led a number of small instrumental and singing groups, was eventually hired as assistant conductor by both Sadler's Wells and the BBC's Scottish Orchestra. Last fall he took over on 24 hours' notice for the ailing Otto Klemperer, conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in a wildly acclaimed concert performance of Don Giovanni...
...roared back: "There wasn't. There was a Parliament but not a democracy. Your people were here and mine were not." He had no patience with Labor's own indecisive Ramsay MacDonald, "treading his resolutionary path from conference to conference." He also had words for a young Scottish member named Jennie Lee, who could not make up her mind about socialism. Snorted Nye: "Why don't you get yourself to a nunnery and be done with it." By 1934 Jennie Lee had made up her mind-and Nye had changed his. "Miss Lee and I," he announced...
...with a 70. Next day Palmer again three-putted the 17th. and his score of 71 dropped him seven strokes behind De Vicenzo, five behind Australia's balding Kelvin Nagle. Tense and disgusted, Palmer stalked off the course, packed his family in a car, drove deep into the Scottish countryside...