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...always true to life, yet slightly absurd-have stayed in the minds of millions. Apart from talent, all great cartoonists need a point of attack from which to enfilade their natural and necessary enemy-the great. Low's point of attack was his own New Zealand background. His Scottish-born father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven as a cartoonist...
...even more dramatic example of widening U.S. impact is bearded, Scottish-born Alan Davie, 35. His discovery of Jackson Pollock in 1948 came as a revelation: "I was amazed to find that I wasn't alone." Davie's recent Manhattan show of his free-form, Druidical abstractions was a near sellout, with eight large paintings snapped up by museums and collectors. Davie's sales in six previous London shows: none...
Free & Equal. The society's real aim is refurbishing ideas. It was founded in 1949 by Colonel David Stirling, 40, a hard-driving bachelor who led a commando unit in daring raids against Rommel behind German lines in the western desert. Settling in Rhodesia after the war, Scottish-born Stirling was shocked by the rising racial hatred he saw everywhere. He decided to do something about it "before total catastrophe overtakes both white and non-white societies." His plan: a society of all Africans, regardless of color, in which each would have equal rights and-as he fulfilled certain...
Died. Hector ("Wee Hector") McNeil, 48, Scottish-born Minister of State (1946-50) in Britain's postwar Labor government, Member of Parliament (1941-55), delegate to the United Nations (1946-49), Vice President of the U.N. General Assembly in 1947; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered aboard the Queen Mary while en route to the U.S.; in Manhattan...
Died. Harry B. Mitchell, 88, Scottish-born, longtime (1933-51) U.S. Civil Service chief, three-time Democratic mayor of Great Falls, Mont., three-time unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Great Falls...