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...said: "If I get five more, I'm home! At least I'm home over the Tories. I need another 13 to be clear overall." Again Phillips scanned his charts. Finally he looked up. "I can do it," he said quietly. At 8:10 p.m., a Scottish grandmother, Mrs. Jean Mann, won the seat at Coatbridge, gave Phillips the 313th seat he needed to hold his overall majority...
Bloody Ground. The eldest son of a Scottish immigrant, Virginia-born Charles Taylor wanted to be an electrical engineer but, unable to afford college, switched to insurance "because I could work with figures." He rose to the vice presidency of Richmond's South Atlantic Life Insurance Co., went to Metropolitan as a Lincoln protege in 1932. "I thought I would be able to retire early," he said last week...
Three years ago, while judging at a London dog show, Mrs. John G. Winant, wife of the late U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, could hardly take her eyes off a nine-month-old Scottish terrier pup. Said Constance Winant, an old hand with blue-blooded dogs: "He filled my eye. I had never seen such an air of perfection, such perfect showmanship, such manners." She gave the pup a blue ribbon, then bought...
...again bright & early to drive more miles. Once during the day, she hoisted herself on an open truck while an audience of electrical workers sang "For he's a jolly good fellow" to her husband. On the Attlees drove to Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Lancaster and across the Scottish border to Kilmarnock where heavy snow made the going rough...
Having made three more movies in England (one is Alfred Hitchcock's Stage-fright), he went to Hollywood a few weeks ago with his Scottish bride of six months. The screen's hottest "discovery" in many months, now working on another picture for Warner (Lightning Strikes Twice), Todd is still somewhat dazed by the studio's Academy Award aspirations for his performance...