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Joseph Henry Harley had traveled thousands of miles in his 32 years with the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, but he never left the bustling gloom of the Crewe railway yard near Liverpool. He was just a cog in its sprawling machine, driving a dumpy, asthmatic shunting engine back & forth, day after day. He never married, he never made many friends, he never talked much. He just watched the majestic trains passing him from places he had never seen, bound for places he would never know...
Last week the remarkable Inverchapel landed at Halifax, on his way to Washington as Britain's new ambassador to the U.S. There the Scottish peer uncorked a characteristic shocker. "Cricket is a dull game," said Inverchapel gravely, "I prefer spilikins [jackstraws]." Baseball, peanuts, hot dogs and slang, he added, were more to his liking...
...Scottish nutrition expert with the longest white eyebrows in public life last week took the center of the world food stage. Sir John Boyd Orr (65), Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, convened his group in emergency session in Washington. "This is no '90day' crisis," Sir John warned. An organization must be established to see "that the people of the world will never again suffer from famine...
...Deliberate slowdowns: lit. "call cautious," an old Scottish phrase introduced into British labor parlance by Clydeside shipworkers...
Robert Shannon, hero of A. J. Cronin's story (little Dean Stockwell and, later on, Tom Drake), is an Irish Catholic orphan, adopted by a Scottish Protestant family. The father (Hume Cronyn), a penny-pinching petty tyrant, sells the child's sole heirloom, a velocipede. The grandmother (Gladys Cooper), a termagant, makes him a green flower-sprigged suit out of a petticoat. The great-grandfather (Charles Coburn), a sort of marked-down Falstaff, heartlessly clips his toenails in the waif's face, but soon shows that this was mere gruffness. The schoolboys tease the orphan about...