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...deal more like baseball's free agent wars than one of the most unusual swaps in international business. A Scottish-born U.S. investment banker signed a contract to run one of England's largest government-owned companies. In return, the New York firm he is leaving will be compensated by receiving up to $4.1 million. Members of Parliament denounced the indemnity plan as "monstrous" and "farcical." One M.P. compared it to something straight out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...
...erudite studies dramatically depicted the classical world for millions of readers; of cancer; in Manhattan. The author of 14 books (The Classical Tradition, Juvenal the Satirist) and scores of essays, Highet analyzed the West's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. During three decades at Columbia University, the Scottish-born scholar (he became a U.S. citizen in 1951) won a devoted following by his stirring, animated classroom style, confirming his dictum that teaching does not need "quiet, weak men who want to creep into some little niche...
With kilt-clad bagpipers wheezing Scotland the Brave in a cavernous hall filled with cheering, dancing and festive hugging, the scene might well have been a nationalist celebration in Edinburgh. But the hoopla last week was in Los Angeles, where Scottish-born Douglas Fraser, 60, assumed the presidency of the 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers at the union's triennial constitutional convention. First came an emotional farewell by retiring Leonard Woodcock, whom President Carter has named to head the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Then, after a brief, symbolic challenge by a black local union officer from Michigan...
...France and the U.S., and was one of the first American-born artists to be accepted as a charter member by the European avantgarde. Still, as his good friend Fernand Léger once put it, Calder was "a hundred percent American." His heritage was also art. His Scottish-born grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, came to the U.S. at 22, later sculpted the famous 37-ft. statue of William Penn that stands atop Philadelphia's city hall. Father Alexander Stirling Calder sculpted the classic George Washington statue at the arch in Manhattan's Washington Square. However, the third...
Died. Robert Cruickshank, 80, plucky Scottish-born Hall of Fame golfer and gallery favorite; in Delray Beach, Fla. Winner of 20 PGA tournaments from 1921-50, the "Wee Scot" played with an ebullience that once moved him to doff his cap, throw his club in the air and shout, "Thank you, God!" after a crucial shot bounced out of a brook and onto the green. The club, naturally, landed on his head...