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Scotsman Ronald MacLennan and his wife Margaret, a professional ice skater, separated in 1954. Margaret crossed the Atlantic to live in Brooklyn, where, more than a year later, she gave birth to a daughter. In Scotland, Ronald brought suit for divorce, charging that she must have committed adultery. Margaret's reply: the baby was the result of artificial insemination. Her husband answered that, even if this were true, he had never agreed to her adopting such a course...
White, a native of Dumphries, Scotland, lived in Boston more than 50 years. He was a former president of the Referees Assn. of Boston...
...other two: the collision of two passenger trains and a troop train at Quintinshill, near Gretna, Scotland, on May 22, 1915, which took the lives of 227; the triple collision of express and commuter trains at Harrow on Oct. 8, 1952 (TIME, Oct. 20, 1952), in which 112 were killed...
...Bonnets Off!" Since British landscape painting did not reach its peak until the igth century (with Turner and Constable), it is by its portraiture that 18th century British painting stands or falls. Sir Henry Raeburn (TIME, May 28, 1956), Scotland's greatest painter (he rated the cry of "Bonnets off!" from Highland chiefs), was largely self-taught. His portrait of the two older Ferguson boys, The Archers, was painted when Raeburn was only 31, but in its bold composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings...
...fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips, the sight and flight of knees. Often creating while floating in his green marble bathtub, Dior thought much about good business too, opened his wholesaling Christian Dior-New York Inc. in 1948, organized a perfume company, designed cashmeres for Scotland's Hawick looms, bathing suits for Cole of California-in all, grossed some $15 million a year...