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...tall, he resembled a contented moose. When he held a huge garden party for his visiting King in 1939, he coolly consoled those he could not invite: "It's like heaven. Some are taken and some are left."¶Lord Lothian (1939-40), a Scottish Liberal and Christian Scientist who once lived in a hut next to Gandhi, loved speech-making and Southern fried chicken. Some said he had been in favor of appeasing Hitler, but his wartime patriotism was ardent and eloquent. ¶ Lord Halifax (1941-46), who also arrived with a faint aroma of appeasement clinging...
After his martial admission to "The community of the just upon earth," i.e., a tiny fictional subsect of the Scottish Reformed Church, young Robert Wring-him put on the full armor of God, and then some. The story of his un-Christian soldiering is told in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner...
...crowded is merely frivolous . . . More serious is the complaint that this festival has no natural focal point, as Salzburg has in Mozart, Bayreuth in Wagner, and Aldeburgh in Britten; this is true and perhaps a pity . . . but what sort of festival could be constructed out of purely Scottish material...
King George's ailing legs felt well enough for him to slip into his kilt at Balmoral Castle and cut loose in a Scottish reel...
...walled board room of London's Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which helps them follow Anglo-Iranian's worldwide operations. This week, they were there for the company's 40th annual meeting. With a Scottish twinkle, gaunt, grey Sir William Eraser, for eight years Anglo-Iranian's chairman and operating head, imparted the good news: Anglo-Iranian had turned in 1948 earnings of ?50.7 million ($204.3 million) before taxes, the biggest in its history...