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Sail, Steam, Wings. If the Atlantic Ferry really becomes routine and, as some pilots think, foreshadows peacetime round-trip flights at $150 a passenger, one of the men to thank will be the son of a British Army Colonel, Bowhill of Bowhill from the Scottish Border, who transferred his love from square-riggers to the awkward skyships...
...Your Majesty, I appeal to you as one Scottish lassie to another. I am in love with a Polish soldier and he doesn't want to marry me. But, Your Majesty, it is most imperative that he should marry me as soon as possible, and I beg of you to help...
...Polish colonel summoned a Polish private, gave him unprintable Polish hell. Last week the Queen let it be known that she had got another letter from her Scottish lassie...
Landing at a Scottish port two days later, he spent most of the night working in his train, the crack Peregrine express, which was reported to have been Nazi machine-gunned only 24 hours previously. Next morning at King's Cross Station, suburbanites on their way to work were surprised to see a great crowd of Government and fighting-service notables gathered on one of the platforms. Out of the rear car stepped the roly-poly figure...
...Edmund Hall, Oxford, where in pre-war days flanneled undergraduates lolled on the lawn of the quadrangle around an ancient well, there was an unprecedented gathering last week of the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Wales, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the diocesan bishops of England, Wales, Scotland. Save for the decennial worldwide Lambeth Conference, Britain's episcopate had never before gathered in one conference. But as Malvern showed, the Church of England has lost its smugness. The bishops last week soberly admitted that the church has drifted away from the people, that it is largely...