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Though a member may play badly, the only real requirement is that he play gladly. Dr. E. A. Baker of Edinburgh, Scotland, says that his listing of "violin-D" means that "my talents lie rather in making coffee," but he offers "room with piano, stands, refreshment and car parking." Still, there are drawbacks to being a less-than-A performer. Explains Carleen Hutchins (viola-D), a Montclair, N.J., housewife who makes violas in her spare time: "We Ds don't often get calls; we have to do the calling...
...view of Pittsburgh's Catholic Bishop John Wright, is "immediate unity in good works and charity"-more cooperation by missionaries of both churches, common action on social issues, frequent prayer in common, even a joint Catholic-Protestant Bible. But, warns Dr. Alan MacArthur of the Church of Scotland, while "the glaciers are melting, the Alps remain." Many Catholics and Protestants now regard the dogmatic differences between their churches as less and less relevant-but differences are still there. The theologians frankly admit that divided Christianity is intellectually no closer than before to resolving such issues as the role...
...they usually said no, but later they often said yeah. When he ran out of papers to buy in Canada, Thomson shifted overseas and bought Edinburgh's venerable Scotsman. He took advertising off the front page and perked up the news coverage. He waded into television, setting up Scotland's first commercial channel. He bought Lord Kemsley's newspaper chain in 1959 and found himself on Fleet Street as the proprietor of the august Sunday Times...
...plot is surefire. Beautiful young Queen of Scotland takes a lover, plots to kill off her sottish husband, succeeds but loses her throne and flees into the hands of her homely rival, Queen Elizabeth of England, who throws her into prison and, some years later, has her beheaded...
Wrong Victim. Davison, a British doctor and lecturer in the history of medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, spent ten years researching and analyzing everything written about Mary and the Scotland of her age to produce his defense. Some of the letters, he concludes, were written by one of Bothwell's mistresses. Others were actually written by Mary to Bothwell in the course of legitimate business, but then doctored to suggest illicit passion and intrigue. One of Mary's maids-in-waiting had been taught by the same writing master as Mary, and as a result...