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...from Durham in the rugged northeast of England, who had enough narrative knack by boarding-school age to keep the other girls awake telling stories for hours after lights-out. She is the brisk, jolly image of a faculty wife; her husband is head of the geology department at Edinburgh University. In 1950, having learned she could not have children, she sat down with some foolscap on the table and Wuthering Heights in her head and began writing novels. Says she: "I probably would never have written them if I'd had babies." At her best, her prose moves...
...Apollo 14. While studying the nature of religious experience, Clare Mead underwent a consciousness-expanding experiment at Manhattan's Foundation for Mind Research; her report became a feature in TIME'S Religion section. Dorothea Bourne has interviewed cover subjects on location in such varied places as Edinburgh (Rudolf Bing), Chicago's South Side (Louis Armstrong) and Washington (Mamie Eisenhower), Other times, a staffer-even in World -has had to travel no farther than rosstown for the kind of story that is a function of TIME. Nancy Chase fas the first person from any major U.S. publication...
...than Barbirolli's had been; when he advanced to the post of principal conductor of the Berlin State Opera, he also served as Professor at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin. A Hungarian national, Szell left Germany during the Nazi era and conducted throughout the world, from Australia to Edinburgh...
...Lenny Bernstein's parties, the face in the crowd looked very familiar. Where had he seen that dark beauty before? Peter Diamond, director of the Edinburgh International Festival and a man notorious among his friends for forgetting names, decided on the classic male approach. "Excuse me," he said, "but I think I know you. Haven't we met before?" A look of utter incredulity swept over the features that are engraved on the minds of millions of male moviegoers. "The name," came the reply, "is Elizabeth Taylor...
...program, too much of the north-and other areas too-feels neglected by the planners in the capital. In the gloom of Glasgow tenements, the shoddy dock areas of Liverpool and in blackened, beaten-down Leeds, the shadows thicken. "People are fed up," says Liberal Candidate Willis Pickard in Edinburgh, "with being run from Westminster and Whitehall." Over the entire north, unemployment has risen from 2% four years ago to 5.2% last year. Half the unemployed are men tinder 40. The three major industries of the north-coal, steel and shipbuilding-still tremble from a recession. True enough, the British...