Word: scots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hollywood, the canny Scot thinks of it as a nice place to visit. "It's a very seductive atmosphere," he says in his soft-skirring burr. "One could easily turn into a sort of sweet lush...
Nothing floors Hollywood quite so much as an ordinary man with a reasonably strong character, and whenever one comes to town he stands out like a sea horse in a colony of jellyfish. One is there now. He is a polite, amiable, tall, dark, and loose-hung Scot named Sean Connery, who divides his time. In every other film he makes, he is Ian Fleming's Secret Agent James Bond (Dr. No, From Russia with Love). Now working in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, he is playing a company owner who tries to cure a pretty kleptomaniac (Tippi Hedren...
Indicted by a Dallas County Grand Jury for murder with malice, Ruby could get a death sentence. But his lawyer said he would plead temporary insanity-and if the jury agreed with that plea, Ruby could get off scot-free...
...Prime Minister's secretary by mistake. Fifteen British magistrates agreed that M'Naghten did not understand the "nature and quality" of his act-in short, could not tell right from wrong while committing the crime-and was therefore insane. Instead of going to the gallows, the daft Scot went to an asylum...
Ogilvy is still dread Scot enough to voice some stubborn convictions about the wrongs of his craft. He believes that billboard advertising should be abolished. And on the question of commercial television, Ogilvy is candid: "As a practitioner I know that television is the most potent advertising medium ever devised, and I make most of my living from it. But as a private person I would gladly pay for the privilege of watching it without commercial interruptions...