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...first European infantry outfits to join the United Nations' South Korean fighting forces went ashore at Pusan last week. They were the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the 1st Battalion of the Middlesex (London) Regiment, both British army regulars. The Argylls wore tam o'shanters, bush tunics, jungle-green shorts. Only the regimental pipers wore the traditional kilt, which in World War I earned for the Scots the nickname "Ladies from Hell...
...days, .the Aga Khan had been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx...
...Tam O'Shanter's "World Championship" round this week, Locke picked up another: $1,250 12th-place money...
...Europe this year, including the British Open (TIME, July 17). He did not hurry over to the U.S. as soon as the P.G.A. lifted the ban; he waited for the biggest money tournament in the U.S., the ten-day merry-go-round at Promoter George May's Tam O'Shanter course...
...Sign of Weakness. IndoChina's other strong man is the Doc Phu Tam,* a wizened little man who is head of the Sureteé Nationale, the political police. Tam's job is to combat the Communist terrorism which now stalks Indo-China. In the first six months of 1950, 14 Europeans, 17 foreign Asians (mostly Chinese) and 362 Indo-Chinese have been assassinated by Communist agents in Indo-China. Said the Doc Phu Tam...