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Born in Southampton, Ont., of a Scottish father and a mother of English descent, Thomson was a bright but restless student. He left Canada at 18 without finishing high school, headed south of the Canadian border, turned up at the home of an uncle in the Queens borough of New York City. Interested in figures and bookkeeping, he went to Wall Street for a job, was hired by Merrill as a runner at $14 a week. "I remember the salary well," says Thomson, whose present annual income is over $100,000. "I couldn't live...
...banks that, with Bank of England backing, "accept," or guarantee payment of, commercial debts. The lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) son of Boer War Hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins, Sherfield since 1964 has been chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp., a collective venture of English and Scottish banks that provides credit to small businessmen...
Born. To Princess Alexandra, 29, first cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 37, Scottish businessman: their second child, first daughter, who takes her place as 17th in line to the throne; in Richmond Park, England...
...think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...
...duty to enjoy" a secular life. He enjoyed it so much that even a case of "that distemper with which Venus plagues her votaries"-the first of a dozen or more attacks of gonorrhea he suffered in his 20s-failed to revive his religious convictions. When a Scottish nobleman introduced him to the Duke of York, Boswell decided that London was the life...