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...second, third, and most of the fourth periods, brutal defensive line play dominated the game. Both teams managed to penetrate deep into enemy territory once, but neither could score until two sophomores Bill Humenuk and Scot Harshbager saved the day for Harvard...
Like Harold Macmillan, Grimond is a Scot who attended Eton and won a scholarship to Oxford's austere Balliol College -and, like the Prime Minister, he is wedded to his work. Grimond's wife Laura is the daughter of Lady Violet Bonham Carter, perennial high priestess of the Liberal Party, and herself the daughter of Lord Asquith, who in 1908 became Prime Minister in the party's last elected government. (Winston Churchill was his famed First Lord of the Admiralty...
...crossroads. Its sales of industrial chemicals were sagging, but its whisky sales (Vat 69, Johnnie Walker,, Haig & Haig, Black & White) were soaring. Deciding not to fight the trend, the company last week chose as its new chairman an old-line whisky man, Ronald S. Gumming, 62, a spirited Scot whose great-grandfather founded the Cardow Distillery, which later was absorbed by Johnnie Walker. Gumming, an army officer in both world wars, became a Distillers director in 1946, has been a major force in Britain's drive to export more Scotch. A onetime Scottish all-star rugby player...
Bennett the elder was a crabbed Scot who founded the Herald in 1827. The newspapers of the time were timid and dull, sycophants to power, lively only when used by their editors for inter-paper squabbling. Bennett, armed with the heretical notion that a newspaper should be "impudent and intrusive," invaded two untouched news areas-finance and society-exposing the market swindles of the moneyed and reporting with little respect the social pretensions of their wives. On dull days, he twitted blue noses; one editorial guffaw at unmentionability taunted : "Petticoats-petticoats-petticoats; there, you fastidious fools, vent your mawkishness...
Leading the rubber planters in the difficult transition is Sir John Hay. 74. who is known in Malaya as a hard Scot with a soft streak. The last of the colonial tuan besars (big sirs). Sir John has been a dominant figure in the rubber world for almost half a century. The eleven plantations of his Guthrie Estates Agency Ltd.. totaling 200.000 acres, are the most advanced in Malaya...