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Even in his lifetime Sir Walter Scott was a hero. He earned $1,000,000 by his pen, probably more than any man before him. He dug up and popularized ancient ballads and legends, versifying whole sections of them in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and the Lay of the Last Minstrel while galloping about in cavalry maneuvers. With The Lady of the Lake Scott became a national figure; the Scottish duty on post-horses was raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott...
History. Everyone rightly associated Mnnsey's with the late Frank Andrews Munsey. Everyone knows McChire's was founded by Samuel Sidney McClure, although many are not aware that he is still alive, aged 75. Who was McCall? James McCall, Scottish tailor who arrived in the U. S. in the 1860's and started a pattern business, never knew there was a magazine named for him. In 1885 his company started publishing monthly an eight-page pamphlet of fashion notes, called The Queen. James McCall died that year. In 1891 the pamphlet was renamed The Queen of Fashion...
After ten weeks of stormy trial, Chicago's John Bain, 64-year-old founder of a chain of twelve small banks that failed at one crack last year (TIME, June 22, 1931), was last week convicted of conspiracy to defraud depositors. Scottish immigrant, onetime plumber, Bankster Bain had prospered in real estate, then branched into banking. Before the Depression, his Midas reputation spread widely among the clerks and laborers of Chicago's Southside districts. Unsound real estate promotions, wholesale juggling of assets among his various banks, whisked over his house of cards. When the banks crashed with deposits...
Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled...
...past him. Five miles further on, Zabala was first again. At 15 miles another runner caught him. This time it was Lauri Virtanen, Finland's substitute for Nurmi. Virtanen tired as soon as he had the lead, quit the race. At 22 miles, Duncan MacLeod Wright, seasoned Scottish marathoner, passed Zabala and held the lead for two miles...