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Died. John Gordon, 84, crusty, Scottish-born editor in chief of Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express; in London. In large part because of Gordon's news judgment, the circulation of the Sunday Express, which was about 560,000 when he became a co-editor in 1928, had grown to over 4 million by the time of his death. In 1940, let down by a contributor, Gordon himself dashed off a column that was such a success that he kept it up for over 30 years. His weekly "Current Affairs" sometimes tilted at members of Britain's royal...
...Third Hoorah," Anderson rejoices in his Scottish heritage. Employing every instrument from baritone to synthesizer, this is the catchiest melody on the record. He even enlists the help of a couple of bagpipe players (found, he says, outside the entrance of a London department store honking merrily away) which give the air of a Scottish reel to the piece...
...maneuvering is the generally admitted fact that the Conservatives have no one clearly suited to be Prime Minister. Their electoral base, moreover, has markedly diminished over the past decade. In Scotland, for example, they are not even the second party, taking third place behind the Laborites and the Scottish Nationalists (see following story...
...feisty Scottish Nationalists, meanwhile, picked up four more seats, for a total of eleven, and raised their share of the popular vote in Scotland to more than 30% (against 22% in February). The Scots have long been angry at the loss of their talented young to London and the concentration of the country's wealth in the south. Westminster will thus be under continuing pressure to give greater autonomy 'to the region. Other regional parties also fared well. The Ulster loyalists retained ten of Northern Ireland's twelve seats, including one taken by renegade Tory Enoch Powell...
...kind of man who has been acceptable," says Lindsay Kemp, and so far, no one has really given him an argument. Kemp, 34, is the Scottish creator, director and star of an unusual Broadway entertainment called Flowers, in which bizarre, dream-tinged themes involving homosexuality, masturbation, drag parties and transvestism are set forth in mime and in music. On opening night Mick Jogger sent Kemp a basket of lilies, and the critics sent Kemp a bouquet of reviews in which outrage mingled with fascination. "I don't want to shock people," retorts Kemp. "I want to astonish them...