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Canny Strategy. At the Crossmyloof rink at Glasgow last week, none of the five Scottish teams scored such a shutout, but they did manage to whip the Americans in the first test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
...Glasgow bonspiel, one U.S. "rink" (team), skipped by Frank Van Epps of Portage, Wis., salvaged U.S. prestige by winning, 24-12. Van Epps produced the shot of the day. Two Scots stones, placed about a foot apart, guarded the scoring circle. While Van Epps lined up his shot, Detroit Lawyer John Ritter McKinlay acted as temporary skip to give Van Epps the proper strategy...
...contestant on Potluck won a string of cultured pearls for singing I Belong to Glasgow while standing on his head. Others got tie clips, nylon stockings, electric irons and toasters for such antics as eating fruitcake with knitting needles and balancing pennies on their foreheads while taking off their shoes. Like all other giveaway shows, Potluck has a studio audience, a thigh-slapping announcer, a full catalogue of physical and spiritual indignities for its contestants. The remarkable thing about it: Potluck is the first giveaway show to appear on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s staid television...
...Glasgow-born George Docherty left school at 15 to go to work in a shipping office. Religion played no particular part in his life until one day, when he was not quite 20. "It was the 25th of March, 1931," he says, "at Charing Cross, while I was walking home from work on a spring evening, that I decided to become a minister. It was a quite clear decision . . . and no real conversion, or anything like that. I was a committed Christian. There was nothing supernatural about it, no flaming sun. But a decision...
George Docherty quit his job and went back to school so he could enter the University of Glasgow and prepare for his ministerial studies. During the war he joined the community movement centered on the Scottish island of lona (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), and distinguished himself for his work with young people in the Glasgow slums...