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Gallantry Plus. In Glasgow, Scotland, Patrick McCusker kept raising his hat to women waiting for a streetcar, was finally arrested for disturbing the peace because perched on his head under the hat he carried two white mice...
...Last week WHO warned the world of smallpox in Glasgow. Travelers from Scotland were quarantined in New York unless newly vaccinated...
...Glasgow, the Conservatives' handsome Anthony Eden alternately beamed and looked embarrassed as 2,800 Scots serenaded: "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?" Back in his own Warwickshire, Eden spoke before 35 rubber-booted farmers, their wives and a white-haired vicar. Eden dawdled with his water glass, pleasantly twitted his women hearers. "Some of you ask for very naughty things," he said, "like extra petrol coupons." Two women giggled. One red-haired farm wife remained uncharmed. "For all his good looks," she whispered to her husband, "I'll still...
...hired a dozen plump ladies carrying baskets inscribed "We shop at Lipton's" to march up & down outside, drove a hefty, traffic-blocking pair of hogs marked "Lipton's Orphans" through the streets of Glasgow, scattered broadsides from a balloon, even issued authentic-looking pound notes as advertisements-and got in some minor trouble with the law. As Author Alec Waugh* delicately puts it in his readable but repetitious biography: "Lipton had no objection to being a public nuisance where his own interests were concerned...
Cheerful Loser Lipton, who left $4,000,000 to the poor of Glasgow in his will, was no loser at all on his own terms. At a dinner speech delivered during the height of his career, he succinctly summed up his philosophy: "A man may have many friends, but he will find none so steadfast, so constant, so ready to respond to his wants, so capable of pushing him ahead, as a little leather-covered book with the name of a bank on its cover...