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Shock Treatment. In Glasgow, Scotland, George Patterson tried 51 remedies, finally stopped a ten-day attack of hiccups with a draft of hot mustard and cold water...
...Times's famed and whimsical "fourth leader" (TIME, Dec. 4, 1950). Northcliffe badgered the staff to give the paper a personality, sneaked in the first byline the Times had printed in 137 years. "There should be nothing," he chided Dawson, "like the 'Scottish History Chair at Glasgow,' which is of no interest to the distinguished Nuts and Flappers we are trying to pursue...
...blind date one night in 1934 Keef met Nancy Piggott, a lively redhead who was visiting her well-to-do aunt in Chattanooga. Nancy was an American girl born near Glasgow, Scotland. Her U.S.-born father, Stephen Piggott, was a designer of marine engines for a Scottish firm, became a British subject and was subsequently knighted. Keef followed Nancy home to Scotland, and married her there. Back in Chattanooga, Keef's new wife-witty, wise and devoted-was a great social asset to a close-mouthed young lawyer. They were a popular couple. In 1937 the Chattanooga Junior Chamber...
Troubleshooters. For this, Detroit Edison can thank not only Thomas Edison, but the canniness of the late, Glasgow-born Alex Dow. As Detroit Edison's president for 28 years, Dow was shrewd enough to enlarge the company's policy of giving away free bulbs, set up repair crews to fix electric cords and to repair appliances, all without charge...
...immense fortune by 'private greed,' and who, without in any way relinquishing it, has become a convinced Socialist." He was speaking of Steven Hardie, a brawny Scot who looks like a hard-boiled egg and is a steel-tough taskmaster with a canny eye for profits. Glasgow-born Steven Hardie parlayed his World War I separation pay into one of Britain's biggest industrial fortunes. His British Oxygen Co. monopolizes British industrial gas production; his Metal Industries Ltd. is Europe's biggest ship-breaking business. Hardie of Ballathie owns five large farms in Scotland, two ranches...