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Readers of his autobiographical Plough man of the Moon may be surprised to learn that Rhymester Service was once a Scottish bank clerk. Born in Lancashire, England, he was brought up in Scotland by his grandfather and three Bible-addicted spinster aunts...
King of the Cocos. In London, the youngest, strangest royal D.P. of all packed his own bags. He was John Clunies-Ross V, 19, King of the Cocos Islands (TIME, June 11). Ross V has the lean, long countenance of his Scottish seafaring ancestors. His brother favors their Malayan grandmother (a royal Sulu princess in her own right). Their sister manages to look like both of them...
Mexican Refuge. Author de Palencia, born in Malaga of a Spanish father and a Scottish mother, has long interpreted Spain and its politics to the outside world. Madrid correspondent for several London papers and lecturer in both Britain and the U.S., author of two novels and a book on child psychology, she also served as Spanish delegate to the ILO and to the League of Nations...
Though she sings 20 ballads an evening, she seldom repeats one in a night of performances. Besides the southern Appalachian songs which she learned at singing gatherings in North Carolina, she sings Old English, Irish and Scottish ballads which Susie digs out of the public-library music room. She comes from a ballad-singing family (papa is acting overseas with a camp show), and Susie learned to pluck her harp and zither at home. Her mother is an executive of the American Theater Wing...
Eleven-year-old John Muir came to Wisconsin with his Scottish immigrant parents in 1849, worked hard on the family farm. In his spare time he built from wood and metal scraps a series of locks, clocks and other gadgets that were much admired by curious neighbors. At 22 he went to the State Fair at Madison to exhibit an "early rising machine" that dumped its victims out of bed with split-second accuracy. His next stop was the University of Wisconsin, where fellow students crowded his room to see such contraptions as his "student desk," which whirred and banged...