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...more than a decade. But in 1603, after the Battle of Kinsale, they capitulated. O'Neill led his Catholic chiefs in the "Flight of the Earls" to the Continent, leaving Ulster open to the infamous "plantation" of 1608. The earls' vast lands were forfeited to English and Scottish colonizers, who in turn were pledged to settle them with British farmers of the Protestant faith. These new landowners began the harsh social and economic domination of Ulster's Roman Catholics...
Died. Lord Reith, 81, architect of the British Broadcasting Corporation and first chairman of British Overseas Airways Corporation; of heart disease; in Edinburgh. The teetotaling son of a Scottish clergyman, John Reith left his job with an engineering firm to take charge of the BBC in 1922. He invested the BBC with his own strong sense of dignity by requiring unseen radio announcers to wear dinner jackets while reading the news. Reith resigned as BBC chief in 1938 to head Imperial Airways, which merged with another airline the following year to become BOAC. The dour Scot ran several ministries...
...literary pun. "Owen" in old Scottish means "young soldier," so that James' title suggests "young soldier who wins his grave...
...shining through painted patterns for speckled rainbows on the walls and floor the original five stations by faded paintings on weathered boards, it was all more than a cathedral ceiling vanishing from the eyes quite short of heaven a small chapel in a home a fragment of fourteenth-century Scottish stained glass leaning against a window-beyond, a dry river, trees and rising hills, crucifix a carved root still part of the dry earth, a candle always on a large smooth stone, flat as a simple altar blind Homer, poet liking water and consequent seas...
...lawyer." Behind him, a window discloses silver water, trees, a farm, an arched bridge. The little panel (it measures 181 in. by 141 in.) had disappeared in the Middle Ages and reappeared late in the 19th century in the collection of the first Lord Newlands of Mauldslie Castle, a Scottish industrialist with a taste for painting. It was vaguely attributed to the 15th century Flemish painter Quentin Massys. But nobody paid much attention, least of all the owner's heir Violet, Lady Baird, who kept it in her cottage at Bray mainly because it reminded her of a dear...