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Tall, chesty Ian Mackenzie, Minister of Veterans Affairs, roared in his broadest Scottish burr: "We in Canada have shared the Union Jack-we will always honor it. . . . But we have nothing peculiarly and indisputably our own ... as the symbol of this great nation of ours." Conservative George R. Pearkes plumped for the Red Ensign.* Conservative Thomas Church cheered for the British Union Jack: "One flag . . . one anthem, one throne, one Empire." So many had ideas that at session's end decision had to be deferred...
Born. To David Niven, 35, Scottish-born cinemactor, lately a British Army lieutenant colonel; and Primula Rollo . Niven, 27, one of the first WAAFs (they met bottoms up after a dive into a slit-trench in a 1940 air-raid): their second child, second son; in London. Name: James Graham. Weight...
...THAT GOT Mc CLOY - Helen AWAY-Helen William Morrow ($2). The aggressively erudite author of Panic has boned up this time on the ancient Picts, the psychology of juvenile delinquency and Poe's Purloined Letter. She turns it all into a pretty exciting chase across the Scottish moors. When it's all over, the critical reader may feel as trapped as the villain by the plot's hard-to-believe major premise. Verdict: very good...
...certain that F.A.O. would at least be an advisory and educational body, possibly something more. Said F.A.O.'s new director-general, 65-year-old Sir John Boyd Orr, Scottish nutritionist and farmer: "If we succeed in reaching all our objectives it will be a miracle. But the days of miracles are not passed...
Reformer. Dr. Frank, as his students call him, inherited from his hardy Scottish ancestors a scrappy spirit, a canny business head, and a set of literal Presbyterian morals. A bachelor until he was 45, Dr. Frank neither smokes nor drinks. As an undergraduate at Chapel Hill he was a rugged little St. George, who led pious forays against the roughnecks whose doxies plied their trade in Chapel Hill graveyard. He was nonetheless twice elected president of his class. In 1917, after taking an M.A. at Columbia, Frank Graham became one of the runtiest marines on record...