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Graham delivered his message from the flower-decked platform of Glasgow's huge Kelvin Hall. Sixteen thousand Scots sat in sirence before him and hundreds more were seeing him and listening over a TV relay near by. "I don't want anyone talking or moving for the next half hour," Billy began. Then, with voice vibrating and eyes raised toward heaven, he besought them to have faith and make their peace with God. He ended with the command: "Come to Christ." All told, 470 Scots came forward that evening to make "decisions for Christ...
...patients who had trouble with the circulation in their legs and feet, Glasgow's Dr. John Kelvin prescribed a drug (Roniacol) that is supposed to open the arteries far from the heart. After they had taken four tablets a day for two months, the patients-who had both been bald-reported that they had grown fine heads of hair...
Reporting what he called a "hair-raising phenomenon" to the British Medical Journal, Dr. Kelvin simply passed on one ex-baldhead's "feasible suggestion that the hirsutic embellishment is due to the tablets' improving the circulation of the scalp by their vasodilating [artery-widening] action." He offered no theory of his own. Instead, he added lamely: "I confess that I have not yet personally tried the tablets to cure my own baldness...
...Glasgow last week, the British Medical Association found the matter pressing enough to open its scientific session with a serious discussion of sleep and the lack of it. Physicians from far-flung Commonwealth countries as well as those from Britain proper squirmed in comfortless, sleep-discouraging seats in garish Kelvin Hall and listened with never a wink or a nod to a panel of experts...
Under Daniel Coit Oilman, Hopkins' first president (1876-1901), the university grew mightily. Lord Kelvin, Lord Bryce and William James were among its distinguished lecturers, Woodrow Wilson and Philosopher Josiah Royce among those who worked for its Ph.D. The medical school, with its famous four-Sir William Osier, William H. Welch, William S. Halsted and Howard A. Kelly-was for years the best in the U.S. Other campuses followed the Hopkins in emphasizing advanced research. Even Harvard's imperious Charles W. Eliot had to concede that "the graduate school of Harvard University . . . did not thrive until the example...