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...Viscountess' energetic speech drew polite applause, but some knew, and many another Tory knew, that mere discontent with the Labor Government's inability to end shortages was not enough. All over England local Tory meetings were saying so last week. From Carlisle on the Scottish border came a demand that Tory headquarters announce a policy that "will prove attractive to youth." Said one delegate: "We want a restatement of the Conservative Party's faith." A sympathetic echo came from Tory farmers and retired business people meeting in Worcester on the edge of Wales. In London Mrs. Mavis...
...Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
Robert Burns got a backhanded tribute on the 150th anniversary of his death. In Manhattan the Rev. Charles S. Webster saw fit to say that the Scottish poet was not the irreligious tosspot he had been made out. Burns was really, said Pastor Webster, the Frank Sinatra...
Married. Hugh Algernon Percy, 32, tenth Duke of Northumberland, lineal descendant of Shakespeare's Harry Hotspur and of Charles II; and Lady Elizabeth Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 24, daughter of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch, whose Scottish ancestors feuded with the English Percys for four centuries; both for the first time; in Westminster Abbey, London, with the Royal Family present. The duke crossed the border on a black charger to court his bride in true Percy style...
Died. Louis Kroh Liggett, 71, founder of United-Rexall Drug Co. and the Liggett drugstore chain (502 stores); in Washington. A Scottish-Dutch boy from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...