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...Universal Stores Ltd. and plans to expand Cussons' present chain of 60 stores to at least 200 supermarkets. The son of poor Polish Jewish immigrants, Sir Isaac (he was made a baronet earlier this year for his large gifts to charity) started work in his father's Glasgow cabinetmaking shop, later set up his own furniture store in London. Picked during the Depression to run Great Universal, he has built it into the largest retailing enterprise outside the U.S.-a British blend of Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney that last year netted $34 million on sales...
...auld mug," Sir Thomas Lipton lovingly called it, and the merry Glasgow tea baron tried five times to win it with his majestic Shamrocks, only to fail and die, finally disheartened ("I willna challenge again. I canna...
...happened at a Labor Party rally in Glasgow's Queen's Park. Scarcely had Gaitskell begun a routine political speech than 300 youthful ban-the-bomb hecklers arose from their seats at a signal, marched to the speaker's stand waving placards and chanting slogans. A woman lifted a baby toward Gaitskell, yelled: "I want my child to live!" Snapped Gaitskell: "So do I. and I have two daughters...
...Shame!" cried conservative delegates in the camp of Glasgow's Rev. John Gray ("I'm Auld Kirk to the back teeth"), who insisted that the Kirk honor the Westminster Confession. "What fellowship can there be between light and darkness?" a minister shouted. When the resolution passed and the Kirk ruled that its Moderator could visit the Pope if invited, the conservative Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ...
...doctors and patients now take NHS for granted. Explained a Glasgow doctor: "It's like the income tax-part of our way of life. We moan about it, but we can't imagine being without it." At St. Bartholomew's Hospital's first-rate Medical College in London, Dean D. F. Ellison Nash said: "We couldn't have kept up with diagnosis, treatment and medical care without a national service." A London painter: "It's not all that good, not for what you get out of it. But abolish it? Not that, mate...