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...Edinburgh one night last week, a stocky, square-faced woman with a fiery glint in her eye strode determinedly into a performance of Sydney Goodsir Smith's The Wallace, one of the highlights of the Scottish capital's annual festival of music and drama. As the tale of Sir William Wallace's† wars with England ended and the orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters...
...Wallace's beheading in London in 1305, was a sharp reminder that despite 2½ centuries of union with England, Scotland's 5,169,000 people remain a proudly independent lot. The notion that the 1707 Act of Union that joined the two countries represented a Scottish surrender drives Scotsmen to distraction. "We whacked the Romans," they say, "and we whacked the English." And Scottish national pride, always touchy, has taken on a new tenderness since the crowning of Elizabeth II. who. the Scots insist, is only Elizabeth I to them. So many Scottish mailboxes bearing the official...
...politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary (accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938 and riding with him behind Hitler and Mussolini through cheering Nazi crowds). After succeeding to the earldom in 1951 and taking his seat in the House of Lords he served as Scottish Secretary and later as Commonwealth Secretary and leader of the House of Lords...
Married. Deborah Kerr, 38, Scottish-born cinemactress (From Here to Eternity, Tea and Sympathy); and Peter Viertel, 40, Austrian-born screenwriter (The Sun Also Rises, African Queen); she for the second time, he for the third (her first: British TV Producer Anthony Bartley; his first: French Fashion Model Bettina); in Klosters, Switzerland...
...Clarinetist Davis got was the opportunity to play under, and observe, Conductor Fritz Busch as a member of the Glyndebourne Orchestra. Davis then led a number of small instrumental and singing groups, was eventually hired as assistant conductor by both Sadler's Wells and the BBC's Scottish Orchestra. Last fall he took over on 24 hours' notice for the ailing Otto Klemperer, conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in a wildly acclaimed concert performance of Don Giovanni...