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...were his antecedents. Manhattan-reared (though allegedly born in Edinburgh, Scotland), he sold newspapers, ran a sporting-goods store, became a go-as-you-please foot racer, a timekeeper at track and field meets, a bottleholder at prize fights, ran a gymnasium in Brooklyn and a saloon called "The Sparrow Nest" on Park Row, was once made "athletic editor of the New York Sun." A Y.M.C.A. athletic director in France during A.E.F. days, he was hired by James Gordon Bennett as sportswriter on the Paris Herald...
...that all. Of all the British ports, only Liverpool and those on the Clyde and Severn-lying on the western side of Britain-are operating at anywhere near full efficiency. Edinburgh, Newcastle, Hull, London and Southampton, thanks primarily to U-boat concentrations and to a lesser extent to the Luftwaffe's awful flirtations, are decreasingly effective (in the order named). The ports, in short, are bottlenecks which reduce the effective use of the merchant fleet to the equivalent of about 5,000,000 tons...
Afterwards, intent Dr. Niebuhr found that Edinburgh had had its first air-raid alarm, that four Nazi planes had been potted overhead in the Firth of Forth Bridge raid while he spoke on man's destiny...
...Nature and Destiny of Man was prepared for the famed Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, which only four other Americans have been invited to deliver in 54 years - William James, Josiah Royce, John Dewey and William Ernest Hocking...
...Edinburgh, Dr. Niebuhr delighted his hearers by delivering his complicated lectures extempore, drew the largest crowds in Gifford history. Said one woman: "I dinna understand a word ye say when ye preach, but somehow I ken that ye're makin' God great." Before the lectures were finished, World War II broke out. Even that did not cut down the attendance. Intent on his exposition at one crowded lecture, Dr. Niebuhr suddenly noticed that his audience had grown restless. "Gracious, I'm losing their attention," he thought, "I'd better steam...