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...last week the paper carried 68 columns of finely printed "situations vacant" ads. Government rolls listed 47,000 unfilled jobs, and thousands more were not listed at all. A few years ago the well-protected Australian worker would have rent the air with redundant obscenities if an Englishman or Scot competed with him for a job. Now even a Sydney wharfie knows that foreign workers are needed...
Fantasy & Insight. Handsome, bush-bearded Scot Macdonald was born in 1824 of a line of Aberdeenshire Calvinists. His father, a hard-tender, humorous man, reared his son with Presbyterian rigor-forbidding him to use a saddle until he had mastered riding bareback, advising him "to give over the fruitless game of poetry," exacting his promise to renounce tobacco at the age of 23. After graduating from King's College at Aberdeen, George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future...
...pound class Red Cassady lost an 8 to 5 overtime decision to Scot Maynes of Springfield while at the class above Jim Conant showed promise but lost a 6 to 4 bout...
...charge of the CRIMSON until February 1, 1948, will be a board headed by R. Scot Leavitt '46, President. Other Executive Board members include J. Anthony Lewis '48, Managing Editor; Robert S. Leventhal '48, Business Manager; Joseph H. Sharlitt '45, Editorial Chairman; Shane E. Riorden '46, Executive Editor; Ernest L. Bell '49, Photographic Chairman; and Myron Stein '46, Advertising Manager. Positions on the Executive Board are: Stanley J. Friedman '48, News Editor; Robert W. Morgan, Jr. '46, Sports Editor; Waldo Profitt, Jr. '46, Assistant Editorial Chairman; Roger H. Wilson '47, Telegraph Editor; Richard L. Wattling '49, Circulation Manager; Richard...
...last week came a handsome, witty Scot who is making St. Columba's 1,400-year-old prophecy look better & better. Under his guidance the grey stones of the abbey, fallen into ruin after the Reformation, are rising again, and Iona's fertile soil has once more become dedicated ground. Sandy-mustached Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, 51, is no medievalist nor sentimental ruin-regarder. His purpose is hardly less ambitious than St. Columba's: to eventually awaken Scotland and England to a new concept and practice of religion. To many a Scottish Presbyterian, he seems a worthy...