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Scotch & splash, haggis and heather are all close to the heart of canny Archibald Clark Kerr, first Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck and imminent British ambassador to the U.S. On the high road to Washington this week, Lord Inverchapel had a youthful bagpiper of the Clan Maclean in his personal retinue. Henceforth, state occasions at the British Embassy will be stirred by the bonny skirl of 200-year-old Highland pipes...
...There's something special about him, a hint of heather and fern that's as clean as a fresh wind...
Like everyone else, Dr. Monahan thought that he had no chance to win. Said he: "I think the French Canadians (about half the 15,000 population) will lose me the election. . . ." He planned to spend $1,000 in an effort "to set the heather blazing again across old Glengarry...
Other members of the household are the cretinous twins Bert and Mert (Peter Whitney), their loony little sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...
Somewhere off the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia, in clear sight of the German-held Dalmatian shore, is a small island covered with heather and dotted with red-roofed, green-shuttered houses. In Cairo last week R.A.F. spokesmen told about the advance post maintained on the island. Its occupants: U.S. and British forces working hand in glove with Partisan natives. All the islanders old enough to talk swear by Marshal Tito...