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...your Dec. 24 article, "Piping the Milk": That rumbling sound is my Scottish ancestors turning over in their graves at the inference that Highland bagpipes are "milkcurdling." Our baby daughter Linda learned to pat the plump tartan bag on my bagpipes long before she went from mother's milk. CAPT. CHESTER A. MACNEILL JR. Champion Bagpiper of Oregon Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...maternal milk of lesser races be curdled. From Scottish lactation-enriched, enraptured and enkindled by the noble strains of the pipes-have sprung Bruce, Wallace, Burns and all the lengthy line of heroes, inventors, writers, settlers, engineers and surgeons who are only part of Scotland's glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1952 | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Docherty. For 20 months, black-browed Dr. Docherty had preached in his soft Scottish burr in the modernistic Lisner Auditorium of George Washington University, and it was considered a measure of his success that even under this handicap, the church not only held its 1,700-odd members but even increased its rolls by about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old New York Avenue | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

George Docherty quit his job and went back to school so he could enter the University of Glasgow and prepare for his ministerial studies. During the war he joined the community movement centered on the Scottish island of lona (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), and distinguished himself for his work with young people in the Glasgow slums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old New York Avenue | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...sharp watch on employers. He also kept a sharp watch on union politics, got himself named as a delegate to the 1910 national convention. By 1915 he had fought his way to the presidency, had joined the Odd Fellows, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the Masons (York and Scottish rites) and Indianapolis' Highland Golf & Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Bill Retires | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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