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...grand Irish Mail chugging from Holyhead on the shores of the choppy Irish Sea. At 3 a.m. it was the glamorous, slightly mysterious Night Scot, running up past the misty green Lake District to salty Glasgow on the Clyde. In the evening it was the Comet from Manchester, pulling through the yards and spitting scornful clouds of steam. As the years and the big trains rolled by, Harley's dream that he would run one some day went up in the sooty smoke of Crewe. His passion for the glorious trains rotted away into consuming hatred...
...morning last January (the engine casualties had risen to 19), Joseph Harley slipped from the cabin of his shunter and cautiously hurried across the tracks to the locomotive of the Royal Scot. He swung onto the engine's footplate, manipulated levers and throttles inside. Then he scuttled back to his own engine and drove off while the Royal Scot careened backward down the tracks, and crashed as it left the rails...
Lord Inverchapel (pronounced, extraordinarily enough, in-ver-chapel) would never be taken for a precious, blue-veined Evelyn Waugh character. Inverchapel looks and acts like a real, red-blooded Scot...
...Parliament, until his feet swelled, raced over England in post chaises, sometimes wrote all night-and managed at the same time to pen his first, instantly successful literary works: Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers. He gave up journalism after he married Catherine Hogarth, an unambitious, lethargic Scot, who once remarked of the Garden of Eden: "Eh, mon, it would be nae temptation to me to gae rinning about a gairden stark naked ating green apples...
...Editors of the Crimson take pleasure in announcing the election of Robert S. Sturgis '44, of Leverett House and Weston, as its first post-war President. R. Scot Leavitt '46, of Wigglesworth Hall and Greenwich, Conn., has been elected as Managing Editor, Marvin S. Traub '46, of Wigglesworth Hall and New York City, as Business Manager, S. Douglass Cater '46, of Wigglesworth Hall and Birmingham, Alabama, as Editorial Chairman, J. Anthony Lewis '48 of Lowell House and New York City, as Executive Editor, and Paul Southwick '43, of Leverett House and Baltimore, as Photographic Chairman...