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Hugh Gordon Miller and William A. Goodhart, attorneys of New York and Baltimore, with Deputy Marshal Pinkley of New York, left by the Olympic, their destination the new Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal. On their testimony will rest, in part, the fate of Oscar Slater, who did or did not murder a Glasgow woman named Gilchrist, 20 years...
...Author. Emma Alice Margaret Tennant was one of twelve children, born and bred on just such a Scottish estate as Dunross, and Laura, her favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...
...well-weighed tribute to the refined emotionalism and intellectual aristocracy of her Art. Incidentally the King-Emperor, who has only the very slightest taste for music, cannot but appreciate the portability of Miss Ruth Draper, who can bring an entire play into Windsor Castle at the Royal Scottish estate at Balmoral as easily as a musician could enter with a flute. Officials of the American Embassy were reluctantly obliged, last week, to request the U. S. citizenesses presented not to talk afterwards for publication about any matter appertaining to the Court. Presentee Miss Clementine Miller of Columbus, Ind., solved...
Granite forms the unyielding substratum of Aberdeen, famed as the most characteristically Scotch of Scottish cities. The public buildings are all of hard, white granite. And by popular supposition granite has entered into the dour, shrewd, stingy souls of Aberdonians. Therefore Englishmen were hilarious and incredulous, last week, when the super-Scotch stockholders of The Aberdeen Journal voted 2 to i to sell their newsorgan to the lower of two potent bidders. Cried a dissenting and disgruntled stockholder, ''For once Aberdonians have been done...
Though simple, the last rites of Lord Oxford were no more austere than those of the late Earl Haig (TIME, Feb. 13). Haig was borne to final rest in Dryburgh Abbey, Scotland, on a farm cart, attended chiefly by local Scottish friends of small renown...