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...Riots by Scottish nationalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...border clash between Scottish highlanders and Yorkshire lowlanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

Died. James Bridie (real name: Osborne Henry Mavor), 63, Scottish physician-playwright (Daphne Laureola), who began in middle age writing whimsical plays as a sideline, gave up his medical practice to work full time at it, became one of Britain's leading playwrights (32 plays, ten hits); of a vascular ailment; in Edinburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Drifting on a lazy stream of subconsciousness, some modern short-story writers seem to forget that they owe their reader-passengers a destination. Not so Scottish Neil (Behold Thy Daughter) Paterson, a canny navigator with some of Somerset Maugham's gift for piloting a narrative to home port. The China Run, eight stories long, boasts several twist-of-fate tales that are polished and sardonic enough to have been told by the Old Party himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Plain Stories | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

When a poor crofter's son named Daniel Macmillan went to London to make his fortune, he had little more than his Scottish canniness and a strong desire to become a book publisher. In 1843, from friends and Author Charles Kingsley, he and younger brother Alexander got a little capital­and something more valuable. Kingsley wrote Westward Ho! for the new firm and got it off to a flying start. By 1896 business was good enough to set up an American firm under British-born George P. Brett and controlled by Macmillan in London. The offspring soon grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHING: Crofter's Crop | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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