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When the boat bearing the monstrous cheese docked at Glasgow in the fall of 1881, hundreds of cheering Scots lined the quay. Hundreds more pushed and shoved their way into Thomas Lipton's produce store on High Street when it went on display there. A few days later, tall, rawboned Owner Lipton had another thought: Why not hide gold pieces in the cheese and let the public know it? When the cheese was finally sliced up and sold on Christmas Eve, Glasgow shoppers mobbed the store, bought up every crumb of Lipton's "Jumbo" in two hours...
...Gamble. Tireless Tommy Lipton reversed an old igth Century success pattern. The son of an Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S. Instead of finding his fortune he drifted from job to job-a worker in the rice fields of South Carolina, a plantation bookkeeper, a clerk in New York. But Tommy Lipton never forgot some of the things he learned in P. T. Barnum's U.S. In 1869, with savings of $500, he went back to Glasgow and two years later opened...
...Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Ellen Glasgow's The Romantic Comedians...
...poor Scottish family who worked his way through Glasgow University, Orr started as a theological student but got interested in the new dogma of Darwinism instead. Soon Orr became convinced that food or the lack of it was the reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding...
Friendly, 59-year-old Scottie, with a nose as bulbous as one of his own gnomish ink faces, had been scratching pictures to amuse himself ever since he was a boy in the slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed...