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...Scottish-born, 76-year-old Dr. Broom (TIME, Jan. 16, 1939) is interested in early man, about whom he has written six books and close to 400 articles. The bones he found at the Kromdraai farm he attributes to higher primates which lived some 500,000 years ago. He sees in them "interesting affinities to man." Broom thinks the Kromdraai ape man may be a survivor of forms out of which man sprang a million years ago. The new anklebone, small compared with the skull, leads Broom to believe that Kromdraai's large brain would not have been required...
Plans for a ceremony were swept away in a rush of plain people to make tired and broken men feel welcome. Dockers, Forth riveters, nurses, generals, sergeants, privates, onlookers and excited children laughed, wept, blew their noses hard. Cripples, as they came ashore, thumped the Scottish ground with their crutch tips, said: "By God. It's good." In the hubbub few heard General Sir Ronald Adam read a message from Their Majesties, beginning: "The Queen and I bid you a very warm welcome. . . . We rejoice to think that you are safely home...
...just been nationally released. With nothing more than their bare hands, a little intelligence, tenderness and characterization, the creators of Jeannie tackle a grey-haired comic cliché-The Innocent Abroad-and come up with the best light comedy of the year. Jeannie McLean, a sharp-chinned, homely-pretty Scottish country girl, 26 and single, decides before she buries herself in domestic service, to squander her father's "entire fortune" (a bequest of ?297-$1,188) on a trip to Vienna. She wants to hear The Blue Danube "played at the source." Aboard the Channel packet she meets...
...Author. Tall, soldierly, Scottish Ian Hay is one of the British writers most read by Britons. His 27 books have had total sales of over three million copies. Few authors have a better background for writing military narratives. A 36-year-old lieutenant in the famed Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Author Hay emerged from World War I a captain, from the Battle of Loos with the Military Cross. Says Hay: "I think I was given the M.C. for being the only survivor." His First Hundred Thousand became so popular in the U.S. in 1915 that Author Hay was later sent over...
...Said the London Midland & Scottish Railway, which had just barred its train platform at Preston, Lancashire, to all except passengers: "The station has been used by young girls to pick up men. They have made an absolute nuisance of themselves...