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IT IS looking a lot more festive at the Market Cross in Lerwick after the Christmas tree was installed this week. It comes ahead of the Living Lerwick Christmas parade on Saturday 2 December. Trees have also gone up in other locations such as Lerwick Town Hall and in Scalloway.. ....
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THOMSON MOVES FAST His radio-newspaper holdings stretch from Timmins to Jamaica . and if he knew Attlee better he d probably try to buy the BBC August 1 1946 BRUCE McLEOD THOMSON MOVES FAST BRUCE McLEOD WHEN it comes to pulling rabbits out of a silk hat, Blackstone may be quite a guy. But that’s just kid stuff for 51-year-old Roy Herbert Thomson, a fast-talking Torontonian who traded mumbo jumbo for supersalesmanship, a magic wand for a fountain pen and proceeded to pull hundreds of thousands of dollars literally out of thin air. Until a few years ago, when he streamlined his five-feet ten from a lumpy 250 pounds to a cosy 185, this magician of big business deals was built somewhat along the lines of a Bartlett pear. In those days, as he squinted with nearsighted eyes from behind thick lenses or tugged with nervous fingers at a tight collar, Thomson looked no more impressive than the average businessman who ....