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Born in the Orkney Islands, Muir was successively a shipbuilder, journalist, and a cultural representative for the British government in his early years...
...education came through osmosis," the poet remarks. Indeed, his writing still reflects the atmosphere of his childhood home on the Orkney Islands off Scotland, where "there was no great distinction between the ordinary and the fabulous." Leaving this peaceful habitat, Muir moved first to the Scottish mainland and then, in 1919, to London. Yet he still had not found either his art or his happiness. It was only after several months of psychotherapy, he recalls, that his "vague fears were quite gone...
After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...
Died. Sir Norman Mcleod Buchan, 84, 18th Earl of Caithness, head of the ancient Highland family that once controlled northern Scotland† and the Orkney Isles; in Castle Auchmacoy, Scotland...
...Norwegians fumed last week when the motorship Cometa, bound from Bergen to neutral Argentina, was reported torpedoed by a U-boat right in Kirkwall, Britain's contraband control port in the Orkney Islands. The Admiralty quickly denied responsibility, said the sinking occurred "hundreds of miles" from Kirkwall in the North...