Jack Campin wrote:
> > More Skinner trivia: at his funeral, "Lochaber No More" was played
> > at his grave by G S Maclennan...
> I've been puzzled about that ever since I read it. GS died later the
> same year, and had been too ill to work for years. I'd assumed he
> had cancer, but maybe not. What kind of terminal illness leaves
> somebody totally disabled but still able to get up and do a
> performance like that?
Pass. My source is J Murdoch Henderson, writing a couple of years after
the event. It's not unreasonable to assume he (JMH) was there.
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