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...Scottish-born London doctor turned bestselling novelist, who caustically described the medical profession (The Citadel, Adventures in Two Worlds...
Legend in the Kampongs. At his last press conference, Templer introduced his successor. He is capable Sir Donald McGillivray, 47, the Scottish diplomat who had been Templer's political deputy since 1952. McGillivray's appointment symbolized the changeover from a largely military to a mainly political emergency in Malaya. Said Templer generously: "I couldn't have done without...
...Never from these buildings have the police picked up anyone for dope or anything like that." And Scottish-born Mrs. Woodard wasn't impressed by Mrs. Stevenson's social position: "I had a title when I came over here. I was Lady Rogers. But that's all in the past now. I'm very proud of my name, Mrs. Woodard, and very proud of my buildings...
Died. Bertie Charles ("B.C.") Forbes, 73, Scottish-born onetime Hearst financial editor and columnist 'who started his own semimonthly business magazine, Forbes (circ. 128,623), in 1917; of a heart attack; at his desk in his Manhattan office. A prolific chronicler of tycoons' careers-e.g., Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller-B.C. strove to "humanize" Big Business, larded his Forbes columns with hearty aphorisms. Examples: "Rest? Yes. Rust? No! . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make the best...
Jean Heather Marris Murray, daughter of a Scottish emigrant father and a South African mother, was born in Pretoria. An Oxford scholarship took her to England, where she worked as a free-lance journalist throughout World War II. The Fire-Raisers is her first novel but is written with a skill and confidence that make it close to the most impressive story yet about the South Africa of Malanism and apartheid...