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...David McLean, a tenant of the Duke's, saw the Messerschmitt crash and puff into flame, saw also the white bloom of the parachute drifting down through the dusk Armed with a pitchfork, he found Hess lying on the ground with a broken ankle covered by his chute. In perfect English he said to McLean: "Will you take me to Dungavel to see the Duke of Hamilton?" Instead, McLean took him to his cottage, called the Home Guard. The local Home Guard officer arrived, sternly asked in pidgin-English: "You Nazi enemy?" Hess asked again to see the Duke...
...named Rudolf Hess grabbed an airliner to avoid importunate newsmen and photographers. > Mrs. Emma Hess Upchurch of Bristol, Va., a sister-in-law, was proud that her boy Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess's toenails were painted red. > Collier's Correspondent William Hillman broadcast that Hess had been converted to Buchmanism, had flown to Britain to "share" his sins. > Said Parliament...
...first citizen of Britain to know about Hess's flight was David McLean, a tenant on the estate of the Duke of Hamilton, near Glasgow. David was in the house Saturday night and everyone else was in bed when he heard a plane overhead. He ran out back of the farm, heard a crash and saw a plane burst into flame in his field. A man was coming down in a parachute, so David got out his pitchfork...
Died. Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, eighth Duke of Newcastle, 75, one of England's ranking peers, onetime owner of the famed, traditionally deadly Hope diamond (now the property of Washington's Evalyn Walsh McLean), onetime husband of the late, tempestuous, U.S.-born Actress May Yohe; in Dorking, England...
...Wendell Willkie took a job with a law firm (see p. 77), Oren Root Jr., 29, organizer of last year's Willkie Clubs, left a seven-week-old job as junior member of the Wall Street law firm of Hatch, McLean & Root, reported for duty as aide to the Navy Purchasing Officer in Manhattan...