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Despite the loss of a 6,000-record library when he fled Germany in 1936, Dr. Koch has today one of the world's greatest collections of bird and animal recordings. Muffled in an old tweed coat, he carries his recording equipment from the Scottish moors to the Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks...
...Samuel Dacke Harkness, 66, grew up in a background where theology was orthodox and strict. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, young Sam earned a doctor's degree from Missouri Valley College and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1908. But his experiences in the ministry soon began to jar loose some of the orthodox rivets in his Presbyterianism...
Summer theater operations are all conducted with New York as a nerve center. There casting agents help the harried producers find a kinky-haired Basuto for "The Hasty Heart"; property and costume companies supply the bagpipes and Scottish regalia for the same show. Most theaters have a resident company of actors, who play supporting (and in some playhouses, principal) parts; these people are usually signed up in New York...
Many princes have already changed their way of living. Last November the Maharaja of Jodhpur (1,750,000 rupees a year) moved with his Scottish wife from London's Claridge's to a small hotel which charges him only $2 a day. In the past, on Hindu festivals wealthy princes used to stage huge processions with elephants and camels. Now the maharajas' high-born pachyderms are out in the fields working for a living...
Died. Sir Harry Lauder, 79, stubby, bandy-legged Scottish comic whose pawky burr and lilting ditties (Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race...