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Though their star-gazing grandfather lived in Scotland, the McWhirters were born in London in 1925, the children of a newspaper editor who Ross says subscribed to "hundreds of newspapers and magazines." The senior McWhirter may have been the most compulsive swallowers of information of his time--though Ross says he simply needed to "know the opposition"--but it is to such humble eccentricities that the authors of the Guinness Book of World Records trace its origin. From an early age the growing twins clipped useless information from the papers. "We kept lists of the largest buildings, that sort...
...from private collections; the preferred targets are tapestries and minor (hence easily negotiable) "blue chip" Ecole de Paris pictures: Rouault, Modigliani, Vuillard, Bonnard, Cezanne and the like. Major art thefts, whether for ransom or resale, have declined in England over the past few years, thanks to the formation of Scotland Yard's highly efficient art squad in 1968. "It simply does not pay criminals to steal works of art in this country," says London Art Dealer Hugh Leggatt. "The police in Britain have always been far ahead of their foreign counterparts in detecting and recovering lost works...
That bravura statement of Tory faith earned her a standing ovation when she preached it to the annual convention of Young Conservatives recently. But Mrs. Thatcher's zealous championship of individual initiative may not go down well in the depressed towns of the industrial north and Scotland-the two areas where the party must gain strength if it is ever to return to power...
...class in male M.P.s. Says one Conservative backbencher: "She's not only a woman. She's the wrong sort of woman. She might be acceptable in the suburbs and seaside resort areas. I cannot see her making much of an impact in the industrial northeast and Scotland. After all, she's a very suburban lady...
Then the improbably happened. After a Brown time-out, a shoving match ensued while the Bruins were attempting to put the ball in play between the Crimson's Jonas Honick and Brown's Glenn Scotland...