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...fellow craftsmen who know him consider him the most skilled practitioner of a most difficult kind of book reviewing. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, when he edited the Freeman, said that Lisle Bell had invented a new form, ranked him with highbrow Scottish Critic Edwin Muir. Poet Marianne Moore, who edited the Dial's brief booknotes for the ten years Bell contributed, called one cluster of his reviews the best thing she had seen. The reason why Reviewer Bell has never received recognition for his services to U.S. letters: his 17,000 reviews have been written as a sideline, while...
...James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose, Scottish Covenanter who later supported the Stuarts and was hanged by order of the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh...
Eddie Corstorphine, Scottish-born Presbyterian, got a conscientious objector's discharge from the Canadian Navy after four and a half years of war at sea. He had met & married Phyllis Lawrence of Guelph, Ont. She had converted him to Christadelphianism, a 96-year-old. Brooklyn-born faith which does not tolerate killing, prohibits military service "until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth...
Born. To the late, great Raider Orde Charles Wingate, 41, bush-bearded jungle general, killed in a Burma plane crash (TIME, April 10); and Lorna Wingate, 26, his beauteous, Scottish-born widow: their first child, a son; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...Highland Fling (by Margaret Curtis; produced by George Abbott) is as Scottish as it sounds but hardly as lively. A yarn about the ghost of a rakish 18th-Century laird, it tries for both rowdy fun and romantic charm, never quite spears either...