Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Camp & Campus. Jack McCloy's first steps were taken in Philadelphia where he was born in 1895 ("north of Market Street, on the wrong side of the railroad tracks," McCloy explains). His father, who came of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock, worked for an insurance company. When Jack was six his father died, leaving no insurance. Mother Anna May Snader McCloy, of Pennsylvania Dutch (i.e., German) background, learned nursing, told Jack his father had hoped he would be a lawyer, skimped & saved to send him to Maplewood, a Quaker boarding school, then to Peddie, Amherst College and finally Harvard...
Welburn Mayock, a down-to-earth, oil-rich Los Angeles lawyer who ran the Truman-Barkley clubs and was general counsel to the National Committee. He gave $4,500. A longtime friend of and attorney for Ed Pauley, Mayock helped scotch Henry Wallace's candidacy at the 1944 convention, served as assistant to then-treasurer Pauley. The President, like most of his friends, calls him "Judge," but it is a misnomer. "I never claimed it wasn't," Mayock explains, "but I got tired of explaining it was a phony myself." He maintains law offices in Washington...
...Chicago company put up pickles in 20 flavors of liquor (nonalcoholic). Those who liked their pickles straight could down them and taste bourbon, brandy, rum or Scotch. For mixed-picklers, there were Manhattans, Martinis and Daiquiris...
...Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Mendelssohn's trip to Scotland was almost as happy musically as his tour to Italy, which produced Symphony No. 4; Rodzinski here gives the "Scotch" a good piping. Recording: fair...