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Because she has kept up for 15 years the U. S. and Scottish philanthropies of her late husband and because she customarily spends her summers at Skibo Castle in the Scottish Highlands, the Senators of St. Andrews University voted to confer an honorary Ll.D. on Manhattan's venerable Mrs. Andrew Carnegie...
...busy with 550 English, Welsh and Scottish Mayors and provosts on the Silver Jubilee, Edward of Wales was recalled last week from Vienna and Budapest where he has been sporting with a mixed party of twelve gay friends featuring charming, horsy, Baltimore-born Mrs. Simpson* and her aunt...
...Columbus Genealogical Society, trailing the Sells family back through the ages in genealogical libraries in Chicago, Washington and New York, solemnly announced that she had tracked it down to Adam. Her course (going backward): Rhode Island's Roger Williams, Britain's Plantagenets, 21 generations of Scottish kings, 19 centuries of Irish kings, Egypt's Pharaoh Nectonidus; Judah's Zedekiah, Israel's David, Enos, Seth and thus (4,000 B.C.) Adam...
...other city in the world. Its five archbishops have been named Hughes, McCloskey, Corrigan, Farley, Hayes. Its handsome Gothic Cathedral on Fifth Avenue is dedicated to St. Patrick. Of the city's priests, policemen, bartenders, politicians, firemen, judges and streetcar conductors, a goodly number are named for the Scottish-born saint who brought Christianity to Ireland. Thus there was plenty of cause for pious feeling last week when the authentic spiritual successor of St. Patrick-Joseph Cardinal MacRory, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland-visited New York...
Professor Kittredge's fame has spread in the words of his hero, Beowulf, "wide through all the land." Wherever scholars are gathered in the study of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Beowulf, wherever medieval romances, English and Scottish ballads are delighting students anew there will be felt the influence of George Lyman Kittredge...