Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Ella Logan, 41, Scottish-born Broadway songstress (Finian's Rainbow), great friend of ex-New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer: Fred Finkel-hoffe, 44, Hollywood and Broadway producer-writer; after twelve years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...unemployment. Science fiction, with its flying saucers and its legions of Martian midgetmen, has just about monopolized the literature of fantasy. But two new books roll out the old-fashioned magic carpet. The Visionary Novels of George Macdonald (containing two stories, Lilith and Phantasies) are by a 19th century Scottish Presbyterian who deserted the pulpit for the pen, and The Fellowship of the Ring is by J.R.R. Tolkien, a pipe-smoking, 20th century Oxford philology professor. Both books are fashioned as fairy tales for adults, and fueled by strong and unorthodox imaginations...
...Scottish highlands there is a town that comes to life once every hundred years. This town is called Brigadoon. In Hollywood there is a giant Cinemascopic set speckled with full-sweatered girls, bagpipes and Van Johnson. This is also called Brigadoon. So much has been said about the transient quality of both that an observer of Hollywood's Brigadoon finds himself looking for new beauty in seemingly insignificant details...
Died. David Coupar Thomson, 93, Scottish press lord and bitter anti-trade-unionist; in Dundee, Scotland. Owner of three newspapers (including the Glasgow Sunday Post, with the largest Sunday circulation in Scotland), Publisher Thomson made his employees sign contracts that forbade them to join unions, was finally forced to back down in 1952 in the face of a threatened boycott of the Trades Union Congress and affiliated unions. His papers always bore the imprint of his crusty personality. After a row with Winston Churchill in 1922 over a political speech, he barred Churchill's name from the Thomson papers...
...showing that everyone is really a brick beneath a seemingly loathsome exterior, the result is dreary. In one especially painful scene, Paul Douglas as the mogul, is almost seduced from the business virtues of ruthless efficiency and unbridled avarice that the British evidently find peculiarly American. When a gentle Scottish lass tells him about the beauties of indolence, the mogul seems about to chuck a princely fortune and sign aboard the Scots boat as cabin...