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...Morley bought one-third of the contest for about $300,000. The following year, he bought the remaining two-thirds for a Scottish brewery he was then running. When the brewery ran into money problems last year, it decided to sell its interest. Who should step forward to buy it but Eric Douglas Morley, this time for himself. Since the show was first broadcast on commercial television three years ago, TV rights have been sold in 40 countries, and Miss World has blossomed into a moneymaker. Last year it netted about $360,000 and is now worth twice as much...
...still a role in Africa for traditional missionaries with skills and tact. One is Alfred Merriweather, 63, a physician sent in 1944 by the United Free Church of Scotland to run the Livingstone Mission at Molepolole, Botswana; the center is named for David Livingstone, the famed 19th century Scottish missionary and explorer. Merriweather has seen massive changes over four decades. "On reflection, we made many mistakes. When I joined the mission service, my immediate senior banned traditional tribal dancing as being heathen. Today no one would dream of denying the local people their traditions. We do, however, have to battle...
...characters took the bit in their teeth; all at once they became detached from the flat paper, they turned their backs on me and walked off bodily." The speaker is Robert Louis Stevenson; the story is Kidnapped (Scribners; $17.95). As young David Balfour seeks his rightful inheritance in the Scottish Highlands, his adventures indeed assume a sudden verve. Like last year's Treasure Island, this reprint is an ideal restoration. Most of the rare and splendid illustrations by N.C. Wyeth are not copies from the first edition; they have been brilliantly reproduced from the original paintings...
...their far-flung travels, that is. Because the migratory patterns of Atlantic salmon are well known, commercial fishermen can easily catch the fish either at their feeding grounds or as they are about to return to their rivers. With increasing clamor, Scots are blaming the shortage of salmon in Scottish rivers on the perfectly legal, internationally negotiated agreements that allow fishermen from numerous European nations to net salmon in the open North Atlantic...
...part of the seminal English folk-rock band Fairport Convention provides a kind of melodic continuity with the past. "Folk doesn't mean anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played guitar in police bands ("He wasn't good. I'm sure he won't mind my saying that"), spent his boyhood listening to early...