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Last week Murray stopped off in San Francisco on his way to the C.I.O.'s annual convention in Los Angeles. He had dinner with 600 Western Steelworkers and their wives, reminisced in his soft Scottish burr, then departed, with a "Good night and God bless you." At 11:30, he and Mrs. Murray retired to their room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, leaving a call for 6:30 next morning. At 6:30, the switchboard rang and rang, but got no answer. A bellboy knocked, then opened the door with a pass key. Mrs. Murray (who is hard...
Married. Virginia Fortune Ryan, 19, daughter of U.S. Industrialist John B. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Banker Otto Kahn, great-granddaughter of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Lord Ogilvy, 26, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish Earldom of Airlie (two castles, one lodge, 69,000 acres) and onetime favorite escort of Princess Margaret. Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, four other members of the Royal Family and 800 guests witnessed the most glittering Anglo-American union since the 1895 marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Ninth Duke of Marlborough; in St. Margaret's Church, London...
...interruption was as welcome as a short snort at sundown. All day the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg last week, had been debating Europe's chronic dollar deficit, and at length Britain's Scottish-born Robert Boothby took the floor: "We can expand, I think, the export of certain specialties to the U.S. . . In this respect my own country is rather fortunate. In Scotland we manufacture the highest quality tweeds and we make the highest quality whisky, the best whisky in the world...
...girl. A brilliant student who loved to flex her muscles in such masculine pastimes as hunting, shooting and fishing, she deplored the necessity of making a formal debut in London clad in feminine frills. Later on, after getting her M.D., she became the popular local doctor in the Scottish village of Alford (pop. 1,300). Elizabeth exchanged her skirts for the more manly kilt...
...tedious upbringing as a girl," he said. By an upland salmon stream, the heir to the family baronetcy (but not the barony), Rear Admiral Arthur Lionel Ochoncar Forbes-Sempill, 74, considered his new status. "As uncle of the present peer. I succeed," he told a reporter. "According to Scottish law, a girl can't. But Ewan . . . dammit, that's a bit different...