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...could be forgiven for taking a little added satisfaction in the recent $1.18 billion acquisition of scotch-whisky producer Whyte & Mackay by his UB Group, based in Bangalore, India. United Breweries has come full circle since the days of empire, when the firm was founded by Scotsman Thomas Leishman in 1915. It wasn't until India gained independence from Britain in 1947 that the first Indian director was appointed--Vittal Mallya, Vijay's father. Vijay Mallya has spread UB's global reach, and taking over production of some of Scotland's most treasured whiskies could be his most audacious move...
...disease Jill Seaman battled is not new. In the 19th century, kala-azar ravaged much of eastern India, where it earned its name--Hindi for "black sickness." In 1900 a British physician, Dr. William Boog Leishman, developed a stain to detect the parasite with a microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen. In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani. Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America. A complex treatment involving daily injections of a potentially toxic, antimony-based compound (as in the drug Pentostam...
...translations may miss some cherished lines or bridle at Poulin's occasional use of contemporary vocabulary. Yet a comparison between his version and one of the best previous translations suggests that Poulin's is closer to current taste. In their 1939 rendering of the Duino Elegies, J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender wrote...
...everyone had yet jumped on the bandwagon. Southeast Conference athletic officials, their feet dragging noticeably, voted almost unanimously to tell the ten college presidents to stick to their educational knitting. Bowl officials were outraged at being singled out for criticism. The righteous indignation was summed up by Lathrop Leishman, chairman of the Rose Bowl's football committee: "The problems of proselyting and subsidizing of athletes exists in conferences that never play postseason games . . . You can't cure the mange by killing...
...Leishman got his idea for his stereo-fluoroscope in 1934. Last year he formed the Stereo-Fluoroscope Corp. Last fortnight he got an Army contract...