Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edens come of Norman stock, and as far back as the 15th century one lusty Robert de Eden carved out a fiefdom close to the Scottish border. Charles II made Sir Robert Eden a baronet in 1672. The family, though seldom conspicuous, won acceptance in the gilded circle of the aristocracy through its large landholdings and its far-flung marriage alliances. Through his mother, Sybil Frances Grey, Sir Anthony is connected with the Earls of Westmoreland, and the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk. His young second wife, Clarissa, is the niece of Sir Winston Churchill...
Although he customarily wins friends and influences people wherever he preaches salvation, Evangelist Billy Graham (TIME, Oct. 25) unwittingly made some British enemies. Up to his nonclerical collar in a "Tell Scotland" crusade, Graham found himself in the rough, both on a Scottish golf course and in the minds of England's organized animal lovers. The ruckus began when he started a BBC broadcast with a bland enough statement: "Fishes belong to the sea, animals belong to the jungle, human beings belong to God." But to Britain's buffalo-chip-on-shoulder League Against Cruel Sports, these were...
...French Physicist André Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...
...Welcome, Billy," they shouted as the train from London chuffed into St. Enoch's station. Then, as a chorus of Scottish voices sang the 23rd Psalm, the men and women of Glasgow, many of them weeping, surged toward the slim young American. Grey hat in one hand, leather-bound Bible in the other, Evangelist Billy Graham joined briefly in the singing, then made his way through a forest of outstretched hands and drove to his hotel. There, under his window, another crowd waited. Said Billy: "We have prayed for Glasgow all the way across the Atlantic...
Died. Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, Nobel Prizewinning Scottish-born bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928; of a Coronary thrombosis ; at his home in London (see MEDICINE...