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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990529
Author:Ian Jack

Thirty years ago there lived an old woman in Glasgow of whom it was sometimes said that the most famous thing to have happened to her was that the novelist John Galsworthy once kissed her in a taxi. In fact, that wasn't quite right. The woman, Margaret Morris, had been famous in her own right as a dancer, and was well enough known as the widow of the Scottish painter JD Fergusson. But whenever I saw her in the distance on the streets of Kelvinside, the time of her great beauty long past, I would think of the story that people told, of Galsworthy, the kiss and the taxi.

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