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...What Money Can't Buy." Cronin was bone poor when he attended the University of Glasgow Medical School after World War I (in which he served with a destroyer patrol). But he was all set to "work, work, work . . . live on air, sleep in the park, sing in the streets, do anything ... to enable me to take my doctor's degree." Proud of "my critical faculties," adept in finding "objections to the immortality of the individual soul," Cronin was nonetheless "too much of a coward" to be an avowed atheist, too much of a fighter to settle into...
Last week, in a letter to the Washington Post, Glasgow-born Dr. George Docherty, pastor of historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, took up Evangelist Graham's defense: "Unitarians may not believe in the Revealed Truth of God in Holy Scripture, but those who do may not all be living in a 'religious dark age' . . . Dr. Graham did not come to Washington to put 'guilty ideas' into the minds of the youth of the city ... These 'guilt complexes,' so dear to the psychologist's heart, are as old as the Garden...
...Allards and Sunbeam Talbots, French Simcas and Citroëns, Italian Lancias and Alfa Romeos-were as ready as they would ever be. At a series of watch-tick signals, 328 grim-faced drivers from 18 nations set out from such widely scattered starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich, Stockholm. Their goal, some 3,300 roundabout kilometers (2,000 miles) away: Monte Carlo -and a million francs (about $3,000) first prize...
...Downs. The Glasgow starters, after crossing the Channel by ferry from Folkestone, had better weather luck. British Motorcar Manufacturer Sidney Allard, along with Veteran Driver Guy Warburton, made good enough time to stop for two warm meals: steak and chips at Liège, bacon and eggs at Amsterdam. They hit the swirling snow between Le Puy and Valence soon after plows had cleared the way. They also passed a stalled Allard driven by Allard's wife Eleanor, in the race with her two sisters. Shouted Allard: "Are you all right?" Shouted Mrs. Allard: "No!" This bit of information...
...noted. First, the accents are botched. Natives of the Western Isles speak without a burr (or in Gaelic), and it is said that the purest English in the world can be heard in Inverness, capital of the highlands. Yet the Bonnie Prince Charlie characters sound like a flock of Glasgow longshoremen...