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Died. Sir Harry Lauder, 79, stubby, bandy-legged Scottish comic whose pawky burr and lilting ditties (Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race...
Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish vaudeville comedian, slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Strathaven home, banged his face, bumped his thigh...
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