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...seemed to mean that those who had taken advantage of scare-buying and jacked their prices this summer would get off scot free; and those who had postponed price increases as long as they could would be punished by a rollback. By the same token, the steel companies which raised their prices on Dec. 1 would be left alone, but manufacturers who raised prices on Dec. 2 to compensate for the steel boost would have to roll them back. Said one Chicagoan: "[Rolling] back prices in the face of higher costs must have been the system Mr. Truman used...
...Commons, turning the mudlark's adventure into an affair of state. Most of the time, however, Guinness plays with a mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother of the British Empire...
...admiration was mutual: only ten weeks after they had met, Johnson assured the entranced Boswell that he knew not one man he could rate above him. Reaching for fashionable English understatement, the young Scot told his diary that "this was very high...
...Scotches-Scot. On the big day the students ranged themselves according to their home districts, filed into the student union to cast their ballots. After a half-hour's voting, the booths were closed to allow time for more shoving and throwing of fishheads. After 90 minutes of such relaxation, voting began again. At length, from the balcony above the main gate of University Building, Glasgow's Principal Sir Hector Hetherington read out the results. The race had been close, but the Scotchest Scot of them all had won. Glasgow's new Rector was John MacDonald MacCormick...
...much dull as different-in purpose, outlook and intention. Unlike U.S. radio, which was born into a competitive jungle and just grew into a brassy-voiced maturity, British radio was cradled in monopoly and spoon-fed throughout its formative years by a pious, iron-willed Scot named John Reith. BBC gave its listeners, not what they wanted, but what Director General Reith thought they needed. To use radio just for entertainment, said Reith, would be a "prostitution of its power" and "an insult to the intelligence of the public...