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...other Pope, and received some historic papal guests: the first Greek Orthodox sovereign to visit the Pope since the days of the last Byzantine emperor, the first Archbishop of Canterbury since the 14th century, the first chief prelate of the U.S. Episcopal Church, the first Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, the first Shinto high priest. When Jacqueline Kennedy came to visit, John asked his secretary how to address her. Replied the secretary: ' 'Mrs. Kennedy,' or just 'Madame.' since she is of French origin and has lived in France." Waiting in his private library, the Pope mumbled: "Mrs. Kennedy, Madame; Madame...
...Britain's Princess Margaret and her cousin Princess Alexandra, who soon will marry Scottish Businessman Angus Ogilvy. princesses have begun to look more favorably at kind hearts with no coronets. "What interests me is not the crown, but what's beneath the crown." says France's Princess Isabelle. daughter of the French Pretender, the Count of Paris. A commoner should of course have money. Sweden's royal family ruled British Playboy Robin Douglas-Home (nephew of Foreign Secretary Lord Home) "unsuitable" as a consort for Princess Margaretha because of his low income...
...British reader from 15 to So knows, is call in Richard Hannay. At least that is what old Sir Walter Bullivant at the Foreign Office always did. and with the most heartening results for both the interests of Old England and the greater glory of a sandpiper-sized Scottish scrivener named John Buchan. A soldier, a respected historian, Member of Parliament and, finally (as Lord Tweedsmuir) British Governor General of Canada, Writer-Statesman Buchan died in 1940. But lionhearted Dick Hannay and dozens of other Buchan characters, whose World War I and between-wars exploits fill a score of volumes...
Fondly known in British banking circles as "Gussie,'' G.U.S. was a consistent money loser when Wolfson took it over in 1934. Today, says Glasgow-born Sir Isaac in his Scottish burr, "we are on the way to becoming the Sears of Britain.'' Openly copying Sears's methods, Great Universal manufactures much of its own furniture, clothing and appliances, sells its merchandise both through the mails and at retail outlets, and counts one British family in every four among its customers. Gussie's shares, now worth 450 times what they were when Sir Isaac joined...
McLevy (pronounced McLeevy) was a peculiar institution in U.S. politics. A handsome although notably untidy man, he was a Socialist by label, but he had the political instincts of a Democratic ward boss and the economic views of a conservative Republican. The son of a Scottish roofer, he quit school after the eighth grade, followed his father's trade and became a Socialist after reading Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. He ran for mayor nine times before he finally made the grade in 1933. Bridgeport, a drab industrial city on Long Island Sound, was then nearly bankrupt. McLevy...