Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred and twenty-six years ago this year, the bicycle was conceived and invented by Mac Millan Kirkpatrick, a Scottish blacksmith...
...long court battle of some 35 years ago about whether James Joyce's brilliant book was also unspeakably dirty. Nor do they wish to bowdlerize the bawdier passages reproduced in the script. So they've decided that when the film with its cast of English, Irish and Scottish stage actors is released simultaneously in 135 U.S. and 15 European cities next March, it will play for a mere three days to reserved-seat audiences -which ought to be enough, Executive Producer Walter Reade Jr. figures, to earn a reasonable profit on the $1,000,-000 investment. With such...
...family reunion, and the whole clan was on hand to relive old memories. For not only did N.C. put his children into his paintings, he also turned his children into painters. "You had to paint in our household," says Ann, who modeled for the little girl in The Scottish Chiefs and is the wife of Wyeth-trained Artist John McCoy II. Henriette, who was one of three boys in her father's illustration for Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, is a painter and the wife of a painter, Peter Hurd. Most famous of all: Andrew Wyeth...
Born in Southampton, Ont., of a Scottish father and a mother of English descent, Thomson was a bright but restless student. He left Canada at 18 without finishing high school, headed south of the Canadian border, turned up at the home of an uncle in the Queens borough of New York City. Interested in figures and bookkeeping, he went to Wall Street for a job, was hired by Merrill as a runner at $14 a week. "I remember the salary well," says Thomson, whose present annual income is over $100,000. "I couldn't live...
...banks that, with Bank of England backing, "accept," or guarantee payment of, commercial debts. The lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) son of Boer War Hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins, Sherfield since 1964 has been chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp., a collective venture of English and Scottish banks that provides credit to small businessmen...