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...time, Lindsay was the Master of Oxford's self-consciously cerebral Balliol College. But his students numbered as many underprivileged John Elkins as they did proper Oxonians. Son of a Glasgow preacher, he had long before decided to devote his life to both...
...William learned oil chemistry at Glasgow's Royal Technical College, worked as an office boy in his father's oil shale company. In 1919, Anglo-Iranian (then called the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's company and "Willie came with the shale." He moved up to a directorship, then became Anglo-Iranian's deputy chairman. In 1931 he helped form Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, and set up the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary which built such huge Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa...
Many of the ocean-hoppers were making extra inducements to lure even more travelers' dollars. Last week, Scandinavian Airlines announced that its Stockholm-bound passengers could stop over in Glasgow, London or Paris for as long as they liked, at no extra charge. American Overseas Airlines, which is now taking U.S. tourists into Germany for the first time since the war, offered a choice of ten "packaged" European tours at a cost of $8 to $18 per day (including meals, hotel, tips, sightseeing, etc.) above plane fare. British Overseas Airways Corp. was pushing a round-the-world trip...
...boys haven't even broken a sweat yet," said a wispy reporter for the Glasgow Daily Record. On the floodlit field before him in St. Louis one night last week, commencing a U.S. tour, were $1,000,000 worth of Scottish football (soccer) players, champions of Britain and mythical champions of the world...
Wednesday afternoon, it was the Royal Navy's turn to play the genial host. The navy celebration was held on board, the mighty cruiser H.M.S. Glasgow and featured free refreshments and illustrated tours of the ship. Those members of the team who had enjoyed service in the U.S.N. saw fit to miss this one and made a beeline over to the Elbow Beach Surf Club to make hay while the sun shone. The Elbow Beach Surf Club, it will be remembered, was where the visiting college girls were quartered...