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...central Burma village a character straight out of Kipling stepped up to meet the advancing troops. Regimental Sergeant Major Watts, Retired, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, now deaf, blind and 88 years old, reported. He had spent 55 years in the British Army, 13 years in the Burma police, learned ''what the ten-year soldier tells: 'If you've 'eard the East a-callin', you won't never 'eed naught else...
Robert Burns, greatest of Scottish poets, who supposedly drank himself to death (in 1796) when he was only 37, and whose admirers have periodically attempted to redeem his honor, got his bad reputation newly scotched by Dr. Sidney Watson Smith, onetime president of the British Medical Association. In the B.M.A.'s Journal, Dr. Smith presented medical evidence against the "gossip's fable," declared that Burns "suffered and died from subacute infective endocarditis -that microbic inflammation of the heart which usually has a fatal ending in septicaemia...
Francis Chisolm (Gregory Peck), the hero of this moral saga, is that rare sort of great man, humble, slow-minded, naive and brave, who never realizes his own greatness. At the beginning, in a Scottish village, he has no desire to take holy orders. He is brought to it by his sweetheart's death and by a benign old Monsignor (Edmund Gwenn) who talks, not too urgently, about the will of God. It is this same mentor who sends the young priest, when he has come to regard himself as a hopeless failure, a thousand miles deep into 19th...
...second, seemingly without warning, we were on the top of the earth dyke looking straight down into the canal, while the boat crews were hurling their boats down the steep slope into the water. As they hit the water, the Scottish sergeant in charge yelled: "O.K., me lads-who is for th'other side-a bob a ride, a bob a ride." And then we were paddling frantically-except for the two who missed their footing and were being dragged out of the icy water. The disgusted sergeant cursed them heartily, but everyone on the boat laughed-a little...
Died. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, 76, unorthodox former rector of Manhattan's venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie; in Washington. Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas...