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Pleading "not guilty" last week Claimant Gordon-Haddon plaintively remarked: "I never had any criminal intention," was released in ?100 bail. ¶To the crew of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway's sample Royal Scot express train which last summer steamed around Canada and the U. S. and was exhibited at Chicago's Century of Progress (TIME, May 22), George V sent written congratulations which were read last week by L. M. S. Chairman Sir Josiah Stamp as the far-wandering Scot steamed into Euston Station...
Sixty-five members of the Glee Club will take part in the program, which will include the following numbers: "Drake's Drum", Coleridge-Taylor; "The Pedlar," Russian folk song; choruses from "The Gondoliers," Gilbert and Sullivan; "Shoot False Love," Morley; "Bonnie Dundee," Scottish folk song; "Crudele Irene," Italian folk song. If time permits "Fair Harvard" will be sung at the conclusion of the program...
...Atholl rallied the land-poor Duke of Montrose who keeps plaintively trying to sell his tens of thousands of Scottish acres and takes boarders at his Buchanan Castle for eight guineas ($43) per week...
...Learned that Scotland Yard has assigned a special guard to John McGovern, M. P., onetime plumber, the Scottish Laborite who shouted insulting remarks at Their Majesties during the opening of Parliament...
...prodigious oilmen not the least is J. (for Jean) Paul Getty of Los Angeles. He was born in Minneapolis. His father George was of Scottish descent, a man who began life with little money and died in 1930 leaving an estate valued at $21.000,000. Jean Paul went to the University of California, later to Oxford whence he was graduated in 1914. In 1915 Jean Paul, interested in philosophy, an athlete, a pianist, a speaker of eight languages, was an oil lease broker in Tulsa, Okla.. with not a penny of his father's money behind...