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Piobaireachd. Pipers had to play the warlike Cumha-Mhican-Toisich (Mackintosh's Lament). They were judged on their interpretation and feeling, technical facility and smart appearance. First prize: $75 and a gold medal for the best Piobaireachd piper in Canada. Winner: Norman McPherson of Hamilton...
...Kenneth Mackintosh, Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court...
...first to see natives playing with balls which seemed to bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat. And in 1839, U. S.-born Charles Goodyear dropped rubber (mixed with sulphur) on a hot stove and witnessed the first, accidental process of vulcanization...
Engaged. Capt. Alastair Mackintosh, onetime Seaforth Highlander, divorced second husband of Cinemactress Constance Talmadge; to Lela Emery, daughter of the late John J. Emery, Cincinnati real estate tycoon...
President George L. Mackintosh of Wabash College, extended his retrospect, to cover the whole 20 years of his administration, for he had resigned (voluntarily), and would soon be succeeded by Dr. Louis B. Hopkins, personnel director of Northwestern University. Dr. E. G. Cutshall of West Virginia Wesleyan (Buckhannon, W. Va.) was to be succeeded by Dr. Homer B. Wark of Boston University...