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...Course, stretching like a shepherd's crook across the dunes, still belongs to the villagers of St. Andrews-and they have the papers to prove it. In 1552, a parchment provided that the Archbishop of Hamilton might raise rabbits there if he also allowed the townspeople to continue their "golf, futball, schuting . . ." In the late 18th Century the town lost title to the land, but bought it back (for ?5,000) in 1894. To this day, anyone with the price of the greens fee (three shillings and sixpence-about 50?) can play at St. Andrews...
Kittens & Shepherds. Life at Dallgow, as described by some of its participants, now in the West, sounds like a Dostoevskian debauch. They tell of drunken bouts in Vasily's tightly guarded, 30-room villa; of his shouting rages, his wild rides in stolen cars, of cuffings, beatings and brutish practical jokes. Their stories, perhaps individually suspect, have when taken together a great deal of consistency. His first wife was dead. According to one story, she was killed in a plane crash which Vasily survived. At Dallgow he lived with Lelya Timoshenko, 21-year-old daughter of the Soviet marshal...
...Britain's man in Iran was unimpressed. British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd, lukewarm about the Harriman mission before it started, was now openly skeptical. After the Iranian offer, he went around to see Foreign Minister Bagher Kazemi with a several-day-old irrelevant message about the World Court decision on Iran (TIME, July 16) and complaints against treatment of British personnel in Abadan. Kazemi rushed to tell Mossadeq, who was so upset that he did what he usually does on such occasions: he promptly fainted...
Displeased with Shepherd's tactics, Harriman decided to fly to London for face-to-face talks with the British cabinet. At 10 Downing Street, tired, tense Conciliator Harriman met with Prime Minister Clement Attlee and cabinet ministers. Earnest conferences continued for 2½ tense and weary hours. Reportedly, Britain wanted assurances that Iran would 1) stop petty persecutions of British oil personnel, 2) drop its insistence, in negotiations, on the letter of the oil nationalization law, 3) set no preliminary limits on the scope of the negotiations. Next day, the Iranian cabinet met twice, sent reassuring messages to London...
...John Belknap, brother of Shakespeare's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Meanwhile at Sandringham, the Queen joined King George VI in a garden party for members of the National Federation of the Blind. The King, who has canceled all public engagements since his recent illness, leaned on a shepherd's staff and posed with his blind guests to give photographers a picture of smiling convalescence...