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...name. Some of the townspeople who remembered his long, bony face, his big, brown, scaly hands, remembered also hearing that when John Kane had finished with swabbing clapboard or pillar, he would go home and paint pictures in his bedroom. The critics, who saw his "Scene from the Scottish Highlands" hung with 119 other U. S. paintings, could believe that its creator had never attended art school. They wondered whether it was an eye for a picture or a nose for a news story that had caused the committee to honor his effort. There was no easy facility of technique...
...received in 1925. For four years Haddon was a member of the Students' Representative Council, and is now one of its presidents, as well as Convener of the International Academic Committee of the organization. Haddon is interested in the political movements of Europe, and was one of the Scottish representatives in 1926 at the C. I. E. Council meeting in Prague, as well as representing his university in the same year at the I. S. S. Conference in Jugoslavia...
Since being capped Master of Arts in 1925 Haddon has studied law, and is now in the last year of study for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in preparation for admission to the Scottish Bar. He is a member of the University Boat Club and has rowed for his faculty...
...majesty Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes, Queen over the British Commonwealth of Nations, bent her knees and lifted her feet in dashing oldtime dances at Balmoral, royal Scottish home...
...outcry. The Duchess of Chartres had helped him fit his ships, and he was a welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware...