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...Ambassador Lewis Douglas beamingly accepted an LL.D. from Edinburgh University, pleasantly surprised the onlookers by revealing just how Scottish he is. His great-grandfather learned medicine and surgery in Edinburgh, said Douglas, and "here my grandfather was twice a student in your university, and met not far from here the gentle lady who was to be my grandmother...
...William Barnie, 54, Scottish science teacher, who wore a prig of white heather in his bathing cap for luck, boasted: "I'm the oldest man ever to swim the Channel, and the first Scotsman...
...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
Died. Annie Henrietta Yule (Lady Yule), 75, one of the world's richest widows, whose husband (and cousin) Sir David ("Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left her some $100 million when he died in 1928; in St. Albans, England. She preferred animals to people, kept a racing stable and a menagerie, bought broken-down draft horses and put them to pasture on her estate...
...British press was atwitter over the rumor that Princess Margaret had set her heart on marrying the tall, red-haired Earl of Dalkeith, 26, heir to the well-to-do Scottish Duke of Buccleuch. (The title dates from 1663, when Anne, Countess of Buccleuch, married the Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of Charles II.) Newspaper gossipists spoke well of the Earl's record at Eton, Oxford and in the Royal Navy, observed complacently that "the blood of the Stuarts is to be found in both." But at week's end, Buckingham Palace remained majestically mum. The Earl...