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...Scotch Ballad...
...heart of Great Britain's export trade is the Scotch whisky industry; last year it earned $63 million in dollar sales, more than any other single British manufacture.* The heart of the Scotch industry is Glenlivet, a potent, peat-smoky liquor which many U.S. Scotch fanciers have never heard of. Glenlivet is little known because 98½% of its 220,000-gal. annual output is siphoned off by big brand-name Scotch distillers, who use it to provide tang, bouquet and flavor to their own blends. Unlike other Scotch distillers, Glenlivet's owner, 56-year-old Captain William...
...making of one of Her Majesty's ministers in Britain is something akin to turning out a good Scotch whisky. It takes considerable mellowing in the cask of Commons, a goodly bit of gentle sloshing about in the lower recesses of the ship of state and a year or two in the political cellar of some influential member of Her Majesty's government...
...last week, Prime Minister Winston Churchill uncorked a rare exception to the formula. As his new Minister of Health, one of the toughest jobs in the government, he appointed Iain Macleod, a wee but peppery native of the Scotch-bibbing Western Isles who is only 38 and has barely completed two years in Parliament...
Private Life: For relaxation, likes golf (low 80s), dancing, gin rummy, canasta ; likes a Martini or a Scotch & soda; smokes cigarettes, pipes, and especially expensive Panatella cigars. Hates dealing with household chores; likes loud sport clothes, good automobiles (he drives a Cadillac), science-fiction and westerns, comic strips (his favorite: Dick Tracy), and movies with happy endings...