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...Forty years ago, the idea of there being a great English sculptor was as remote as a Hottentot becoming prime minister of Scotland," says one British artist. Today Great Britain has become a hotbed of new sculptors, with three museum shows in London currently devoted to their renaissance. Miraculous as the new flowering appears, the sculpture bloom began in the 1930s, when British artists found the seeds for their ideas on the Continent from such sources as Brancusi, Archipenko and Picasso, repotted their findings in good English earth, and began producing a hardy native growth...
...building, in which a complex of 19 New York state-government buildings will be climatized by five 4,500-ton motors in the world's largest air-conditioning plant. On an order from the British government, the company will air condition a new 20-story headquarters for Scotland Yard...
...Marquess of Lansdowne, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs in Britain's last Conservative government, an ardent hunter and crack shot who won the 1952 British women's clay-pigeon championship; of self-inflicted shotgun wounds suffered, apparently by accident, in the gun room of their Perthshire, Scotland, estate where her daughter Caroline, 17, died under almost identical circumstances nine years...
Married. Michael Chaplin, 18, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill, himself a Beatle-haired London drama student; and Patricia Johns, 25, London bit-part actress; in a civil ceremony; in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the legal age is 16, thus getting around Daddy's refusal to give permission. Mom did not seem to mind; she was only 18 when she married Charlie...
Stewart will work first on the Gifford Lectures of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, delivered by Nock in 1946 but still unpublished. He plans to edit the lectures, which deal with Hellenistic religion, and add a commentary supplementing the famed classicist's original ideas with later discoveries made largely by Nock himself...