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...home State of durable ex-Senator Jim Watson gave the Senate another notable orator last week-this time a Democrat: balding, 48-year-old Samuel Dillon Jackson, ex-State Attorney General of Indiana, ex-prosecuting attorney, longtime elder in Fort Wayne's Presbyterian Church, active member of the Scottish Rite. Governor Henry F. Schricker appointed him to fill the unexpired term of the late Frederick Van Nuys (see p. 82).* Said Senator Jackson: "I will support the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Man for the Post | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Hollywood. His more obvious buffoonery was played up, but the subtle, split-second comic counterpoint between Clayton, Jackson & Durante and their jazz band never penetrated Hollywood. In 1936 Jimmy gave himself a change by touring Europe. In Glasgow, his act so moved Sir Harry Lauder that the classic old Scottish comedian rose from his seat and joined Jimmy on the stage in spontaneous partnership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Foresighted Canada's new War Assets Corp. (TIME, Dec. 13) last week told what it intends to do. Under no illusions about the vastness of the job, W.A.C.'s new president, sensible, Scottish-born Steelmaker John Ballantyne Carswell, explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: For Tomorrow | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

During two years of fighting in the Middle East, Major Peter Byers Ascroft, a surgeon with the Eighth Army, and his Scottish surgical unit handled 516 head-wound cases. Last summer Major Ascroft summarized the clinical results of this experience in the British medical journal, The Lancet. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine declared Major Ascroft's article required reading for every U.S. military and civilian surgeon. Reasons: 1) "the conclusions differ so fundamentally from those previously authorized for publication by the [U.S.] War Department, which were largely reached shortly after World War I"; 2) the article...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Head Wounds | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...exact 24 steps into his walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with his own pattern of letters, engineering reports, and half a dozen straight-stemmed pipes. On the front of the desk is the Douglas coat of arms.* On it is inscribed his Scottish forebears' motto: Jamaiz arrière (never behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passionate Engineer | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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