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...central figure, a rock-chinned, canny young Scottish giant named Alex MacTay, has the makings of a poet, but instead goes to the U. S. to make a fortune. The year is 1890. On a farm in western Pennsylvania he schemes a partnership in a sidehill coal "bank," marries the farmer's pretty daughter, a schoolteacher, stamps out the last of his poetic impulses. At 34 he owns two big coal mines, is worth a million...
...lances fluttering with red and white pennants* (see cut) outshone all the rest of the Garden's splendors. The fact that the Dragoons have been chosen to escort King George & Queen Elizabeth on their visit to Canada next year gave them an added glitter. To the music of Scottish folk songs (Bonnie Dundee, The Campbells Are Coming) and Irish jigs (Rory O' More, Donny Brook Boy), the knight-like Dragoons and their sturdy mounts cut centaurian capers with the precision of the Radio City Music Hall's famed Rockettes. For their grand finale they charged the length...
...opened in Washington in 1935, an exhibition of 15 paintings dignified it. They were by John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography, Sky Hooks,* is finally published as it was told to his friend...
Last week Neville Chamberlain returned from his Scottish salmon-fishing trip. The fishing had been poor but London toy-shops sprouted timely little booted Neville Chamberlain dolls holding a rod & reel in one hand, a little sign saying PEACE MAKER in the other...
...historic Euston Station in London the London Midland and Scottish Railway has been celebrating its 100th anniversary. But the life of the party has not been punctilious Chairman Josiah Charles, Earon Stamp of Shortlands, G.C.B., G.B.E., K.B.E., C.B.E., nor the still-puffing 100-year-old locomotive Lion. It has been a pursy, 63-year-old Welshman, Traveling Ticket Collector Albert Gwilliams...