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Queen Elizabeth, although the daughter of an earl and descended from the most illustrious Scottish nobility, is technically the "first commoner" to become Queen of England since Henry VIII's Queen Catherine Parr. In nothing has Her Majesty been common, except in dress, for it was undeniable that as Duchess of York she was "the sloppiest dresser in the Royal Family." This was the result of misplaced loyalty to her Scottish maid, an honest wench who, realizing perhaps more keenly than anyone else how unfit she was to dress the Queen of England, tearfully protested her inadequacy...
Greatest name in U. S. private detecting is Pinkerton. The founder of the name, Allan Pinkerton, was a Scottish cooper who became Chicago's first city detective in 1850, soon started a private agency...
Strike-badgered General Motors scarcely had time to notice this week that a Scottish member of its board, hearty Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, was raised to the peerage as a Baron by His Majesty King George VI, who released last week his first Honors List. Sir Harry, easily the biggest Briton on the list, was knighted in 1918 for putting through efficient mergers of munitions firms. He has long been rated "the highest salaried industrialist in Great Britain," a key figure in Rearmament today, and is Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries...
...from their wedding feast, popped into a buzzing two-seater sport car. They zipped to a suburban station and Britain's most famed train, The Flying Scotsman, halted to take them aboard, sped them to honeymoon on the estate of his mother, a Maxwell. Short is their Scottish holiday, for conducting the Coronation of George VI is an hereditary duty which the Duke of Norfolk must discharge, and Westminster Abbey has already been closed for preparations and rehearsals...
...most famed tale. Three Weeks (1907), which she wrote in six, raised a storm in pulpit and press, was widely condemned as wicked. But most of its critics, says Elinor Glyn, never read the book, consequently did not realize its moral message. She gave one such critic, a Scottish professor of the History of Religions, a copy of Three Weeks to read, found him later in repentant tears...