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...summers ago two octogenarian Scots made a deal for the barren island of St. Kilda, among The Hebrides. Seller was Sir Reginald Macleod, 84, 24th chief of the clan, director of Shell Transport & Trading Co. Buyer was Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa. Last summer the Marquess removed St. Kilda's 35 tenants, their cattle and a few sheep to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Left behind were wild sheep, seamews and puffins. Declared the Marquess' heir, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis: "My father and I will never again permit the island to be settled' (TIME...
...from St. Kilda's gravelly landing beach (St. Kilda has no harbor). Left behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor Government had both decided that bleak St. Kilda is unfit for human habitation. Said Lord Ailsa's son, Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassillis...
...Lords Ailsa and Cassillis in their opinion of life on St. Kilda. A tiny peak of rock in the North Atlantic, 40 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, it is stormbound for eight months of the year. No trees can grow there, no cats can live there, no horses, no rabbits, no rats. The St. Kildans (a population of 30 to 100 has lived there for centuries) speak nothing but Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when...
...Reporters last week could find nothing to connect 7 5-year-old Andrew William Mellon, whose daughter bears the name of Ailsa, with the 83-year-old owner of St. Kilda, but found much to connect Lord Ailsa with the U. S. The Marquess of Ailsa, whose title comes from Ailsa Craig, a precipitous rock at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, is a direct descendant of a Captain Archibald Kennedy, R. N., who inherited an estate near Hoboken, N. J. in 1763, married into New York's Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families, was said to own "more...
...Milligan (14,000); James M. Hopkins (12,826); Irenee du Pont (12,500); Frank H. Buhl (10,720). Other U. S. Steel shareholders: President Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft (1,072); Lawyer Elihu Root Jr. (1,300); Theodore Roosevelt (20 preferred); Packer Philip D. Armour (1,245); Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Secretary Mellon (3,428); President & Fellows of Harvard College (5,224 preferred); Union Theological Seminary (1,000 preferred...