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...death warrant. The scene shifts back and forth between Mary (Irene Worth) in her castle prison and an autocratic but waveringly feminine Elizabeth (Eva Le Gallienne) in her palace. By shrugging at geography as well as history, Schiller once lets the two Queens confront each other, and has the Scottish one so denounce her English rival as in effect to sign her own death warrant...
...heart attack. A repentant Laura kneels and prays that he be restored to life. While a pit chorus explains what is going on, three legendary miracles are enacted at one side of the stage: an Italian Renaissance woman finds her dead child coming back to life, a Scottish lass sees her cow revive, and a German soldier of the Thirty Years' War exchanges his own life for that of his fallen brother. (Each of the episodes is sung in the language of its setting.) Then back to the living room. Tracy yawns, looks up at Laura and asks: "What...
...Royal Scots Fusiliers with the Highland Light Infantry. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (which suffered the heaviest casualties at Waterloo) now becomes one with the Somerset Light Infantry (nicknamed "The Illustrious Garrison" after its defense of Jellalabad in 1842). Two of the best known of the Scottish regiments, the Seaforth Highlanders and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders must form one unit, find new tartans for their men, new tunes for their pipes...
...fretted because peptic ulcer patients stubbornly ignored their warnings that sodium bicarbonate, the kitchen's ever-present help in time of heartburn, may cause alkali poisoning and dangerous gaseous distention of the stomach. But it remained for Glasgow's Dr. Andrew Greig Melrose to report, in the Scottish Medical Journal, a case of outright addiction to bicarb, an addiction so intense that the victim suffered severe withdrawal sickness when taken off the stuff...
...Jaguars were privately entered, but there was a big contingent of factory mechanics on hand to give expert aid and comfort to the cars. The experts had remarkably little work to do. Once they got the lead, the Jags held it to the finish. The Scottish stable (Ecurie Ecossaise) that won last year took first and second; one of last year's winning drivers, Ron Flockhart, was in the front runner, and his co-driver of last year, Ninian Sanderson, rode in the runner-up. A pair of French drivers took third; two Belgians were fourth. The fifth Jaguar...