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...grimy Inverness have been working on borrowed time. Twelve years ago their Government took over the two unprofitable mines when the private owners decided to shut down. It has operated them at a loss ever since, just to keep 200-odd miners in jobs. Said Premier A. Stirling MacMillan: "It would be easier for us to get the coal somewhere else...
...Halifax one day last week, a tall, grey-eyed Scottish stranger called on Nova Scotia Premier A. Stirling MacMillan. The stranger announced that he was "glad to be home." He would, he said, like to buy part of Nova Scotia...
Gustav Holst: The Planets (Toronto Symphony, Sir Ernest Macmillan conducting; Victor; 8 sides). One of the best 20th-century English orchestral works, abbreviated (Planets Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are missing). Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
...long before Alexander began to look afield. The Macmillans set up branch offices in Canada, Australia, India, New York (today the independently managed U.S. house alone has a yearly turnover of ten million dollars). Soon Macmillan's educational series served the world; its school "readers" appeared in Afrikaans, Swahili, Arabic, Anglo-Chinese and various Indian dialects. Massive works such as Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians appeared, as well as such famed series as the English Men of Letters and Great English Churchmen. Two magazines were founded, Macmillan's and Nature, and to this day Nature...
Hardy and Shaw. Like every publishing house, Macmillan made some crashing mistakes. Unlike most, it could afford them. One of its experts dismissed the writings of Henry James as "honest scribble work and no more." After characterizing the early works of William Butler Yeats as "sheer nonsense," Macmillan's really went overboard and insisted that his works had no more enduring value than "Maeterlinck's . . . Ibsen's . . . or Rossetti...