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...crowd, the course and the weather were all peculiarly Scottish, but the winning golf in last week's British Amateur was an American monopoly. While a stinging wind whipped rain over Carnoustie course, two former U.S. amateur titleholders made it the first all-American final in the Amateur's 62-year history...
...inability to distinguish real emotions from salable affectations that were written all over earlier Caldwell works. But this time, instead of centering around rapacious industrial tycoons, it is a portrait of an artist as a young man. Frank Clair is born in the grimy English city of Leeds (Scottish-English Author Caldwell was born in Manchester); when he is still a boy, his parents bring him to the U.S. city of Bison (Author Caldwell's parents brought her to Buffalo, in whose outskirts she still lives...
...Captive Heart (Rank; Universal) is a tribute to the war prisoners (in this case British) who, under grim and unglamorous circumstances, preserved their integrity as men. One prisoner is a major who forlornly misses each year's Derby. One is a blind Scottish boy who tries to break off with his girl. One is an ex-burglar who learns so much decency that he sacrifices repatriation for the sake of a fellow prisoner. One is a Welshman whose aging wife dies bearing their first child. A corporal, his close friend, embodies most of the sterling virtues of England...
...always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by John Taras), modern music (by Elliott Carter) and modern art (by Joan Junyer). In Zodiac, weak music and dance were overpowered by blinding costumes and sets. Highland Fling, in which sylphs run in & out of an interminable Scottish wedding to faintly Scottish and vaguely dissonant music, was an unhappy case of incompatibility...
...blithely putting Mark down for half of each donation but always getting just his name on the cornerstones. Trade was the penny-watcher. Except for his habit of taking the waitresses from their plant restaurant for a daily ride in his surrey (later a Fiat), he ran everything with Scottish austerity. As a result of his insistence that all paper work be done on the backs of old envelopes, Smith Brothers kept no records for 65 years. Trade's pet project was the Prohibition Party, under whose banner he once ran for mayor. He was soundly beaten...