Word: fergusson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Prime Minister Clement Attlee's dissolution honors list included an earldom for Viscount Jowitt, the Labor government's Lord Chancellor; a Companionship of Honor for its Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison; a baronage for David Kirkwood, thistly Scottish labor leader; and a knighthood for Dr. Walter Fergusson Hannay, the surgeon who cleared up Attlee's foot eczema and his duodenal ulcer...
Foster (H) defeated Fergusson, 3-2; Nawn (H) defeated Campbell, default; Ufford (H) defeated Ball, 3-2; Bacon (H) defeated Weber, 3-0; Watts (H) defeated Smith...
...finals of the team tourney, played Sunday afternoon at the Lake Shore Athletic Club, the Crimson blanked Philadelphia, 5 to 0 to win the crown. Captain Henry Foster played brilliant squash to lead his team to victory, rallying from a 2 to 0 deficit to defeat Philadelphia's Carter Fergusson, 3 to 2, by one point in the overtime of the fifth game...
...world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
Every regimental history is doomed, by nature, to be at best partly uninteresting to the average reader, at worst wholly uninteresting even to members of the regiment concerned. But able Author Fergusson has done all that can be done to explain the Black Watch to the remotest commuter without ever failing in his duty as scrupulous recorder. The skirl of the Black Watch pipes, the pawky character of its men, and the family feeling that pervades and binds them-all these do much to raise The Black Watch above the level of mere soldierly documentation...