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...only of the reigning sovereign but of the Cabinet. It was soon decided that no school would match Princess Elizabeth's requirements. So every day from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with an hour off for lunch, she studied history, grammar, literature and arithmetic with her Scottish governess "Crawfie" (Miss Marion Crawford...
...Brewing Business. The firm was started by James Smith, a Scottish carpenter, who supposedly got a recipe for cough drops from a peddler. He began brewing 5-lb. batches in his kitchen, sent sons William and Andrew to hawk the drops. After James died, the bewhiskered sons put the drops in boxes, stamped their faces on the cartons, and moved into a factory on "Cough Drop Street...
Brigadoon (music by Frederick Loewe; book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the name of a very odd Scottish village-one that long ago miraculously vanished, but reappears for a single day every hundred years. Just as the village comes to life one 1946 spring morning, a pair of young American hunters stumble spang upon its 18th Century market place-and the season's most engaging fantasy gets underway...
...seeks to sustain a mood. The atmosphere of a fair is more important than who buys or sells, the ceremonial of a wedding more important than who gets married. And the music that runs through Brigadoon avoids sharp contrasts; much of it seems like variations on some nostalgic old Scottish tune. (But two or three pleasantly sentimental numbers should be good for the U.S. hit parade...
Young (33) Author Wynd was born in Tokyo of Scottish (Baptist missionary) parents, was thus a Japanese citizen as well as a British subject. He lived in Tokyo until he was 18. Then he went to high school in Atlantic City, to the University of Edinburgh, and wound up in Malaya as a British intelligence officer with the Indian Army. The next time he saw Japan was as a prisoner of war. He started his novel in Bibai Prison Camp...