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Both his parents were Scottish, and his father, Major Valentine Fleming, D.S.O., was a Conservative Member of Parliament killed in battle in 1916 on the Somme River. The major's obituary in the Times was written by his close friend, Winston Churchill. Ian attended Eton and Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, ended up as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Berlin and Moscow. Switching to high finance, Fleming worked six years as a stockbroker, even though "I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was." In the next six years of war, Fleming...
Samuel's Seed. The first form is confined, so far as the U.S. is concerned, to the region of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County around a town called Intercourse. Named the "Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome" after the Scottish and Dutch pediatricians who first reported it in 1940, it has no common name and is so uncommon elsewhere in the world that only about 50 cases had been reported until McKusick's Hopkins team moved into Pennsylvania. There they found proof of at least 49 cases since 1860, with 24 still living. Most exciting, genetically at least: the Amish...
...cinema, he has a lot more substance than Hoffman brings to the part. Paul Benedict, a sort of anchor-man in this repertory group, gives the audience some good comedy as Alex, but I am disappointed to see how inflexible he is an actor. He adds a slight Scottish burr for the present occasion; otherwise he hasn't changed a whit from what he was in Waiting for Godot and Picnic on the Battle-field, other recent Theatre Company productions. A born comic like Benedict is of little use in repertory theater if he cannot adapt to new roles...
...major difference he sees between American and Scottish students is that the "education of young people here is more general. I didn't find any lack of intelligence in the people I taught at N.Y.U., but I couldn't count on--I wasn't clear what they had studied before they came up to the university." In Scotland, all students must pass exams in very specific subjects...
American universities are also more diffuse than Scottish ones. "At Glascow you sit down to dinner, and the man next to you may be in Hebrew, or botany, but here you never see the other people. I was at N.Y.U. a whole year and I never got to see the art department, though I would have liked to very much. Harvard, of course, is much more compact. If you want to see the science people, for instance, you just go up through the Quad to those buildings across the street. Still, even at Harvard I'm not just clear where...