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...England's total crop-leave for the U.S. Of ten research students in theoretical physics finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley's advanced-projects group. Says one Oxford don: "Usually people are so anxious to get to America that recruiters don't have to work very hard...
...Buchan's The Magic Walking Stick finds a cane that, properly twirled by the owner, twirls him from the doldrums of home to far-off times and places. In The House of the Four Winds (which along with Castle Gay is part of a trilogy about a retired Glasgow grocer named Dickson McCunn), Buchan plunks assorted Britons smack dab in the middle of a palace revolution in Evallonia, a small, turbulent European state north by east from Ruritania...
Fondly known in British banking circles as "Gussie,'' G.U.S. was a consistent money loser when Wolfson took it over in 1934. Today, says Glasgow-born Sir Isaac in his Scottish burr, "we are on the way to becoming the Sears of Britain.'' Openly copying Sears's methods, Great Universal manufactures much of its own furniture, clothing and appliances, sells its merchandise both through the mails and at retail outlets, and counts one British family in every four among its customers. Gussie's shares, now worth 450 times what they were when Sir Isaac joined...
Gold in the Hills. In sake-sipping Japan, that takes some doing. Saji's father started the company in 1923 because he felt Japan should make its own whisky. Though he hired a Glasgow-trained Japanese chemist and traveled endlessly trying to convince bartenders to stock Old Suntory, the company was still in the red when World War II ended. Fortunately, it had a huge amount of unsold whisky stocked in the hills near Kyoto...
...interested, sometime you might read the novels of Sir John Buchan, particularly The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Macnab, or Huntingtower. Notice something. The characters never have any colds. Not Sir Edward Leithen, nor Sir Archibald Roylance, nor Mr. McCunn (the middle-aged wholesale grocer from Glasgow), nor Fish Benjie, nor Mrs. Morran, nor any of the barefoot boys from Glasgow who sing Communist songs to the old Scots tunes. These novels were written in the not so dim and distant 20's. The characters were out in the weather a great deal. Some of the days were beautiful, but most...