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Work v. Theology. The idea of labor as a form of prayer is central at Agape, as it is at the 13-year-old community at lona, off the Scottish coast (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947). This is the time in history, thinks Vinay, when cooperative manual work is the essential Christian activity, just as theology or faith was central in earlier centuries. Says Waldensian Carlo Lupo: "With all the respect we have for ecumenical councils and for doctors of theology, we must recognize that theological discussion belongs to a past state in church development. Today's religious revolution...
...Scottish Artist Archibald Robertson painted it in 1792, on commission from Washington's distant kinsman, the eleventh Earl of Buchan. The earl's fancy: to have a picture of his revolutionary relation as first President of the U.S. Supposedly mislaid, the picture was found hanging in the hall of the 15th earl in 1939, identified as Robertson's Washington. Last May, the earl sent it off to Sulgrave Manor (since 1914 a Washington shrine). Not especially publicity conscious, Sulgrave Manor just got around to announcing the acquisition last week...
...Panhandle between Fort Worth and Amarillo was a buffalo hunters' camp when Henry ("Paint") Campbell, an old trail driver, bought the land in 1878. Within four years, he expanded the ranch to 1,500,000 acres and 40,000 head of cattle, sold out to a Scottish syndicate for $1,250,000. As Matador's manager, the new owners later chose Murdo Mackenzie, a strapping (6 ft. I in.) Scotsman who became a legendary figure in the West. Old Murdo never carried a gun ("I'm so big that any fool could hit me"), but fearlessly glared...
...also oil and gas. Although Humble Oil & Refining Co. has put down 14 dry wells on Matador land, hope stirred anew when the big oil strike was made in Scurry County (TIME, Dec. 5, 1949), only 90 miles from Matador. Dundee's thrifty owners drove such a Scottish bargain that they made Lazard Bros, agree that if oil or valuable minerals are subsequently found on Matador's ranges, the new owners will share their royalties 50-50 with the sellers...
Died. The 13th Earl of Home, Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 77, head of the Scottish clan of Home, wealthy landowner, host to Neville Chamberlain upon the late Prime Minister's return from his "Peace for Our Time" meeting with Hitler; of a heart attack; in Coldstream, Scotland...