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...British War Office last week grimly waited for the arrival of a delegation of determined Scots. The Highland Association was rallying Scottish members of Parliament to protest a recent War Office order: "No more kilts will be issued until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have struggled against what they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection...
Rough as thistle and dour as dominie's broadcloth is the Scottish Presbyterian who last week took over as Great Britain's Minister of Information. No government but Britain's would put direct wartime control of newspapers and newspapermen in the hands of a man who hates newspapers and newspapermen as much as does Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He is said once to have had a reporter fired for flying an airplane over the Reith house to take pictures. In one of his rare interviews he flatly declared that he never looked at a newspaper...
...spirited ladies of the Scottish Women's Peace Movement meeting on the other side of town had decided to fusillade him and get him to say something for their cause. Finally, so many telegrams piled up on Sir John's table that he had to interrupt his speech to explain to his audience. Having done so he demanded sarcastically...
Death. Some 20 years ago, Scottish-born Dorothy Mackaye was a slip of a lass with a pair of sloe-black, Oriental eyes and an intermittent lisp that made her afraid audiences would laugh at the wrong times if she played dramatic roles. So she turned to comedy, made her biggest hit as Peg in Peg o' My Heart. She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond...
...familiar figure on Washington golf links is spry, white-haired Dr. Steuart Brown Muncaster. Proud of his Scottish ancestry, he sports neckties of loud clan plaids. But seldom does he wear his own Gregor, for its red and green checks are "too subdued" for his taste. For 19 years Dr. Muncaster taught ophthalmology at Georgetown University, for more years than most of his colleagues can remember he performed eye operations in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. During that time he brought up a half-dozen younger surgeons, built up a legend about his generosity to charity patients...