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...world was one whose existence was doubted. There were people who believed that the Loch Ness Monster was real; there were people who believed it was not. The number of skeptics diminished after the late Rt. Rev. Sir David Hunter-Blair, onetime abbot of a monastery on the Scottish lakeside, announced: "I have been investigating its presence quietly for many years, having a natural hesitance in letting my friends know that I believed in the existence of a fresh-water parallel of the sea serpent." After all, the Rt. Rev. Sir David was once chamberlain to Pope Pius...
...Comedian Will Fyffe, Scottish music-hall idol and Buckingham Palace favorite, who has sung prodigiously to British military forces—Commander of the British Empire...
...hand to sing old Scottish scolding ballads was Mrs. Lyda Messer Caudill, who says she is a hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. Bud Oney, mighty, black-mustached blacksmith of Long Horn Hollow, fiddled Cherokee Girl, Lost Indian, other lively tunes. Youngest headliner was Bud McCoy, 4. whose family feuded bitterly for 57 years with the West Virginia Hatfields. Announcing numbers in her mountain dialect was tiny, thin-lipped Author Jean Thomas (Blue Ridge Country), the "traipsin' woman," who started collecting folk songs while she "traipsed"' over the mountains as a circuit court reporter, then founded...
...Scottish Highlands, officers and men get the same, tough training. All are volunteers, with at least 18 months' service in regular units behind them. Most of them are from British regiments, a few are Royal Marines, Canadians, Australians. So far as is known, no U.S. volunteers have been accepted. Commandomen have a friendly, free-&-easy comradeship unique in the British Army. To encourage independence, they are made to buy their own food, find their own lodging...
...This is Scotland in 1942-busy but worried-and so doubtless it will remain until the war is over. But then, as in other countries throughout the world, a tragic era of depression may return. M.P. Harry Mc-Neil, adding more gloom to Tom Johnston's picture of Scottish industry, foreseeing new threats to Scottish livelihood in the bounding Dominion increase in steel production, in the "staggering" rate of U.S. shipbuilding, made clear that the home rule of Scottish nationalists is not the answer. Those who raise the "Scots Wha Hae" cry, he said, will "have to learn...