Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reconnaissance officer named John Merton. He sat his subject in a dentist's chair, made 100 three-dimensional photographs of her, worked 1,500 hours while playing Bach, Beethoven and Mozart on his hifi. The girl is Lady Dalkeith, 26, a former fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister. In 1953's flossiest British wedding, attended by Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and 1,600 other guests, she married Margaret's front-running suitor, rangy, redheaded Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, son of the eighth Duke of Buccleuch...
...months ago. Returning as a director, senior vice president and member of the operations committee, Foote will concentrate on creative advertising and marketing. ¶Robert Paxton, 56, was elected president of General Electric Co., biggest electrical manufacturer in the world (1957 sales: $4,335,664,061). Paxton, a Scottish-born, U.S.-educated (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1923) engineer, moved up as President Ralph J. Cordiner, who will continue as chief executive officer, was elected board chairman to succeed Philip D. Reed, who retired...
...Mischievous intriguer," "raven," "rascal,"-so Emperor Napoleon called Germaine de Staël, who became almost an obsessional hatred. When Mme. de Staël wrote her famed romance, Corinne, in 1807, the Emperor noted angrily that Corinne's heroine was English and its hero Scottish. He exploded: "I cannot forgive Mme. de Staël for having disparaged the French people." She was already banished from Napoleon's capital; when she appealed to return, he made her exile perpetual and ordered that she might not approach closer to Paris than 40 French leagues (100 miles...
...role of Charles Darnay, Rosemary Harris as his wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended on it. But Tale was the finest hour-and-a-half for Director Robert Mulligan, 33, especially in his mob scenes, and Scottish Actor James Donald, 40, who portrayed the cynical Sydney Carton with insight and intensity. A veteran of the Old Vic stage and British movies (White Corridors, Brandy for the Parson), Donald was believable to the story's very last coincidence. As he moved toward the guillotine, he gave a freshly...
...Thorneycroft," gruffed the deeply Scottish accent of the Speaker, and silence descended on the House of Commons. From the third bench below the gangway on the government side, traditionally the place taken by a retiring minister, rose the tall man whose resignation as Chancellor of the Exchequer 2½ weeks before had precipitated the debate. Without rhetoric, flourish or grandiose phrase, Peter Thorneycroft explained the realities behind his refusal to increase government spending this year by "less than 1%." In doing so, he cut through years of polemics and political obfuscations to state the wider reality of Britain...