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...Despite stern censure from the Church of Scotland Temperance Committee, brewers distributed double-strength beer specially made and mellowed for the coronation. But they indignantly turned down a Laborite's suggestion in the House of Commons that they stand every pub customer in the country six pints on the house on coronation day. "It's not practical," said the Brewers' Council...
Stuart's grandfather, founder of Quaker Oats Co., emigrated to Canada from Scotland; Stuart's father was born at Embro, Ont., later moved to Chicago. Young Stuart's first paid job (17½? an hour), after he left Princeton in 1906, was sweeping the floors of the Quaker mill at Peterboro, Ont. Later he returned to the U.S. to work his way up to the $80,000-a-year top executive...
Died. Lord Aberconway, 74, board chairman of Scotland's famous Clydebank shipbuilders, John Brown & Co. Ltd., builders of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth; in Denbighshire, Wales...
...faltered. Like a darting kingfisher, his Auster shot under Waterloo's central arch. The Mad Major rounded the bend that takes the Thames toward Westminster. He jinked past a river steamer, circled the county-council hall and swooshed under Westminster Bridge (clearance: 40 ft.), within yards of New Scotland Yard. Next came Lambeth Bridge (clearance: 43 ft.), then Vauxhall, Chelsea, Albert and Battersea Bridges. Not one is 50 ft. above the water yet the Mad Major flew his plane under arch after arch at 90 m.p.h...
Policeman's Lot. In London, Scotland Yard Officer Archibald Pross got a divorce on grounds of cruelty after summing up his life with Rosa: i) he had served her breakfast in bed for 20 years; 2) she kicked him while he was scrubbing the floor; 3) she smashed her glass when he put water in her gin; 4) she accepted love letters and liquor from his next-door neighbor; 5) he was so terrified of her that he frequently slept on the floor -"an unpleasant experience in winter...