Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more colorful colleagues, the bristle-haired Scottish microbe hunter working in a cluttered laboratory at London's St. Mary's Hospital seemed downright dull. But he was nothing if not dogged. He was 47 years old, and he had spent 20 years trying to find something to kill the microbes that cause infections in man, especially in wounds. To no avail; he found a substance in human tears that killed some germs, but not the important ones...
...result of that excursion into contemporary music, the Ajemians began to meet composers, notably Boston's Alan Hovhaness (who is half-Armenian, half-Scottish). They felt sorry for "the poor composer who knocks himself out writing new music and then can't hear it played...
Edwin Muir, Scottish author and poet, announced Saturday in Edinburgh that he has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton lecturer on poetry for next year...
...London's gastronomic spectrum stands Fortnum & Mason, which specializes in the world's most elegant delicacies; its salesmen wear morning coats, ship such rarities as boar's head in aspic and breast of Scottish grouse to all corners of the globe. At the other end are London's ABC shops, a chain of 164 cheap self-service tearooms. This week the Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain...
...across a field, and little green men landing in France wearing plastic helmets, orange corsets or Cellophane wrappers. Now a 32-year-old British thrilier-writer, amateur stargazer and bird watcher named Cedric Allingham reveals that he bumped into a six-foot Martian last Feb. 18 on a lonely Scottish moor not far from where the Loch Ness monster used to sport...