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...creed. "We don't run risks," he snaps. "We run Leyland." Sir Henry introduced the new regime at Standard by easing out former Standard Boss Alick Dick, 46, the imaginative onetime boy wonder of the British auto industry; in as Dick's replacement went Lancashire-born Stanley Markland, 59, an old Leyland hand who started out as an apprentice...
...FRED W. MARKLAND Jacksonville...
...coast of America, probably near Cape Cod. Leif sent out two Scotch runners to explore the country, and these men brought back grapes and some wheat-like grasses." Leif called his new country Vineland. Next year he sailed west again from Greenland, passed "Helluland" (probably Baffin Land), "Markland" (probably Nova Scotia), and came again to Vineland where he collected a great cargo of grapes and timber which he took to Greenland...
...scholarly sportsmen Derrydale Press reprints Mr. Markland's Pteryplegia: The Art of Shooting-Flying, a treatise in heroic couplets first published in 1727 ($10; de luxe edition...
...rise, and, led by organ and choristers, make the arches ring with anthems, preserved in the school from the time of the old monks. But much of our interest in the school lies in the illustrious names on its roll (names such as Bishop Middleton and Bishop Stillingfleet, Camden, Markland, and Richardson; the first of England's novelists) and in stories of Charles Lamb and Coleridge, "the inspired charity-boy," pacing the cloisters together, or Leigh Hunt withstanding some "little tyrant," in spite of blows and cuffs so painful to his sensitive nature. These last three have left us interesting...