Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rachel Workman MacRobert was born American-in Worcester, Mass.-but marriage to a Scottish laird made her a loyal Briton by more than simple law. Her husband was Sir Alexander MacRobert, baronet and laird of Douneside and Cromar, Aberdeenshire, one of that band of hardy Scots who went forth to build the Empire, making Scotland proud and England great. When he died in 1922, he left a million-dollar estate; Lady MacRobert herself became a director of the British India Corp. Ltd., which he had founded...
...deep-going and sweet-running as any on the children's shelf. The innocence of the children. Jon Whiteley as Harry and Vincent Winter as Davy, pierces the heart like a spring morning, and Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson are fearfully true to life as the boys' Scottish Calvinist grandparents. The photography, by Eric Cross, fills the background with a balmy, natural murmur that seems to heal the young hearts as soon as they are hurt. All in all, The Little Kidnappers is one of the half-dozen best movies ever made about children...
...cool February evening in 1888 Scottish Veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop watched his small son pedal a tricycle along a Belfast street and into history. For the rear wheels of the boy's tricycle Dunlop had fashioned hollow rubber-and-canvas tubes pumped full of air-two of the world's earliest pneumatic tires. Within two years pneumatic tires were the rage of Britain's cyclists, and Dunlop was busy trying to fill the demand...
Pilgrim's Progress. In Edinburgh, after Business Manager Ernest F. Munro, 37, was convicted of embezzling $16,800 from the Scottish National Bible Society, his lawyer commented: "It was just the old story of the road to hell being the easy...
...group, the Celtic Ballet of Scotland. Paris-born Dancer Morris has few illu sions about her own barefoot dancing and choreographic style. Says she: "Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis are the Ice Age; I'm about the Stone Age." But her kilted troupe charmed the critics with Scottish folk dances done with a freshness rarely seen in the U.S., delighted audiences in a heathery number telling how Bonnie Prince Charlie escaped to Skye, while warriors fell and their women grieved. At one point, while the group was demonstrating Margaret Morris' own exercise movements, the audience spotted...