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...serious nationalists are few. One of them, Aberdeen Engineer Gordon Murray, leader of the tiny Scottish Republican Party, which had once boasted that it had designs on the Stone, said: "We would certainly like to take the credit, but I'm afraid we properly can't." Bouncy, kilt-wearing Mrs. Wendy ("Wee Wendy") Wood, leader of the Scottish Patriots' Association, who in 1932 roused her followers to tear down the British flag from Stirling Castle, said: "It's the best news I have heard in years. The Stone was retrieved, not stolen." Her group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Stone of Destiny | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ladies from Hell | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

Down to see the contingent's main body off at Hong Kong's pier was Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, who sometimes wears the kilt himself. Said MacDonald to the departing soldiers: "Remember that when you are fighting North Koreans you are really fighting Russian Communism . . . Every time you hit the North Koreans you will be striking a blow, for freedom. In Korea you will be fighting just as if you were defending your beloved homeland and its people." Early this week, the British battalions landed in Kore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From MacDonald to MacArthur | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race and to the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 6, 1950 | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Ultimately, the movie rests squarely on the characterization of the Scot. Complete with burr and kilt, fierce and tender by turns, full of brooding and bravura, the role is an actor's dream. Actor Todd makes it come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

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