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Unofficial reason: Winston Churchill was Dundee's M.P. from 1908 until he was trounced at the polls in 1922 by a Scottish prohibitionist and teetotaler named Edwin Scrymgeour. Mild-eyed Scrym stuffed his speeches with Old Testament quotes on the evils of John Barleycorn, gave Winston a beating he has not forgotten...
...Scottish-born, 40-year-old Alexander B. Austin began his dispatch one day last week to the London Daily Herald. He filed it, climbed into a jeep with three other British correspondents: stocky, thirtyish William J. Munday of the London News Chronicle; mild-mannered, 38-year-old Stewart Sale of Reuters; Basil Gingell of the British Exchange Telegraph agency...
...musical taste since the "swing" craze began in the middle '30s. Public demand was shifting from Afro-American stomps and blues to a much simpler (and often monotonous) musical idiom that was old when nostalgic '49ers were singing Clementine. Hillbilly music is the direct descendant of the Scottish, Irish and English ballads that were brought to North America by the earliest white settlers. Preserved...
...plays a little dollar-golf or gin rummy. He has little time these days for his stable of blooded mares, and gone are his jaunts to Scottish shooting boxes, to fox hunts in the South. His preSun career sounded like the plot of a Ronald Colman movie (English schools, the Argonne and St. Mihiel, industry, investment banking). Now, Multimillionaire Field, newly realistic, has traded it all for hard, unremitting work...
Literally atop this maze, in the hilltop St. George Hotel, Eisenhower spends most of his working days. In off hours, he lives in a pleasant Algiers villa with three companions: his devoted "dog robber" (orderly), Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh; a Scottish terrier named Telek; his principal aide, Navy Commander Harold Butcher, a friend from Washington days who used to be a broadcasting-company executive. Smooth, fast-talking, fast-thinking Harold Butcher is reputed to have much influence with Eisenhower...