Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suffering from an infected foot, nine-year-old Mungai Njoroge had his fears calmed and diverted at a Scottish Presbyterian clinic in Kenya by a kindly doctor who showed him test tubes filled with multicolored liquids. Fascinated, Njoroge decided that he wanted to be a physician, a next-to-impossible ambition for a Kikuyu tribesman. But for 24 years Njoroge pursued his dream. Last week, at 33, he was at sea, homeward-bound as Kenya's first U.S.-trained African physician. He will soon start construction of a 50-bed hospital, the first in Kenya to be operated...
Divorced. By Deborah Kerr, 37, Scottish-born cinemactress (From Here to Eternity): Anthony Bartley, 40, British TV producer, one of the fighter-pilot heroes of the Battle of Britain; after 14 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...city's councils (he developed Geneva's cloths and velvet trade and even introduced an advanced system of sanitary regulations). Doctrine for him was never a speculative but a practical matter, and the waves of his theocratic thought rolled on through the centuries to reappear in Scottish Presbyterianism and New England Puritanism...
...Sultan's catchable eye was caught by Helen Wilson, the Scottish wife of his physician. He divorced his four Malayan wives by the Moslem formula of telling them "Get out" three times before witnesses. Helen Wilson sailed home for the more laborious Western process of divorcing her husband, married the Sultan later that year, and honeymooned with him in the U.S., where the Sultan was equally affable with President Franklin Roosevelt and Mae West...
...researchers, working with grants from the Scottish Rite Foundation and the United States Public Health Service, also examined behavior patterns in non-Western cultures...