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...Place Like Home. Briggsy was a horrifying bowser of a Bryn Mawr graduate-a Philadelphia Main Liner, piddler in photography, a breeder of Scottish terriers. Briggsy was abetted by her Ma and Pa, who lined Jimbo-Jumbo's "den" with photographs of clipper ships; by her bouncing redheaded sisters, Franzie, Pollsie and Nellsie...
...after the death of his equally famed coorganizer, John ("Honest John") Burns; in London. Their fiery oratory and skillful leadership rooted socialism in the English working classes. Ben Tillett ran away from home at eight, worked in a brick factory and a circus, then went to sea, where a Scottish mate taught him to read and write. After a few voyages he quit the Navy to become a shoemaker, then a warehouse hand, in London's East End. Before he was 30 he promoted the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union. Soon he acquired John Burns...
...Anderson's troops ploughed into Bougie. German dive-bombers peppered them, but they rolled steadily over the precipitous spurs of the Atlas Mountains toward the Tunisian border, 175 miles away. British and U.S. paratroops leapfrogged ahead into Tunisian airdromes. In seven days Anderson's English and Scottish soldiers had crossed the border and were meeting the first violent effort of Axis ground troops to stop them. Thirty German tanks and 400 infantrymen attacked and fell back, leaving eleven of their tanks behind...
Against best-selling Current Historian Pierre Van Paassen (Days of Our Years, That Day Alone), the Duke of Hamilton filed suit for $100,000 libel. Complaint of the Duke, on whose Scottish estate Rudolf Hess alighted in the spring of 1941, was that Van Paassen hinted the duke had expected his guest, had been "colluding with the enemies of his country...
...Scottish-born Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with reply), president of Princeton Theological Seminary, is usually a mild man. But last week his dander was up. A longtime missionary in Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, he well knew that the republics south of the Rio Grande still admit Protestant missionaries, educators and doctors, despite some wartime difficulties. Yet last month the U.S. Catholic hierarchy declared that these missions are "a disturbing factor in our international relations" and are "offensive to the dignity of our Southern brothers, their culture and their religion." Last fortnight the Catholic Digest made further charges (TIME...