Word: macgregor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like any good businessman or golf pro, Ben Hogan loves to hear a dollar clink. Last year, his gross income ran to almost $90,000. Besides his tournament prize money, he drew down bonuses and royalties from MacGregor Golf, Inc., which uses his name on its topnotch golf clubs. He masterminds a ghost-written golf column for the McNaught Syndicate, and Power Golf has already sold 54,000 copies. He is pressed to give exhibitions, for which he charges $500 on weekdays, $700 on Saturdays and Sundays. Most of his money goes into the bank...
...chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends in the Old Country...
...MACGREGOR Toronto...
...Penicillin lozenges, made of penicillin and gelatin, will clear up trench mouth in a day, tonsillitis in two days, say Britain's Drs. Alexander B. MacGregor and David A. Long. Lozenges have a "very slightly bitter taste" but one patient ate ten in five minutes...
...Faith in the Devil. Church attendance was obligatory for members of the royal household. "One Sunday the minister [at Balmoral], Mr. MacGregor. preached on the devil. Afterwards he asked Princess Louise whether the Queen liked his sermon. 'She said she ... should think not, as the Queen did not altogether believe in the devil.' " Said the Rev. Mr. MacGregor: "Puir body." Even more amusing is the story of wealthy, eccentric