Webster's World
Columns from The Herald 1985-97
Published on 23. October 1997
445 pages
978-1-84502-923-4 (ISBN)
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Jack Webster is one of the most popular journalists writing in Scotland today. Voted Columnist of the Year in 1996, his first collection of Herald columns was a bestseller. This book presents another collection of his writings.
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Former Gordon's pupil Jack Webster worked his way up in newspaper publishing to become one of Scotland's most highly rated columnists, ending his career at The Herald. In 1996, he was voted Newspaper Columnist of the Year. His books include his autobiography Grains of Truth, biographies of Alistair MacLean and Reo Stakis and two books on one of his favourite subjects - Aberdeen FC.
Content
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- DEDICATIONS
- CONTENTS
- AN INVITATION TO WEBSTER'S WORLD
- REMEMBERING THE FAIRM-TOUN
- LET THAT PIANO PLAY
- IT'S JUSTICE FOR J. R. HARTLEY
- WHEN THE MINISTER TOOK A DRAM
- IN DEFENCE OF LONG JOHNS
- GOTHENBURG REVISITED
- THE MAGIC OF DRURY LANE
- WHEN YOU NEVER SAY NEVER
- TO PETRA-THE ROSE-RED CITY
- CARNAGE ON A FOREIGN FIELD
- FAIRY-TALE OF FORBES
- A ROCKEFELLER AT HAND
- FITE STEEN COUNTRY?
- IS THERE A BOOK INSIDE YOU?
- THE POWER OF COINCIDENCE
- OH, THE TALES WE TELL!
- THE POWER OF LOVE
- A GOLDEN VOYAGE
- TURRIFF-MY START IN JOURNALISM
- MY COLLEAGUE KEVIN
- RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD
- ABOUT MAKING LOVE
- MAKING LIGHT OF LIFE IN 'DARKNESS'
- THE FACE OF COURAGE
- GLASGOW'S MILES CLEANER
- SUPER-EIGHT MEMORIES
- AN UNUSUAL PILOT AIRS HIS VIEW
- THE LEGEND OF BUFF, STEVE AND GEORGE
- PITY ABOUT THE SNOWBOOTS
- HOW I TELEVISED MY CHILDHOOD
- DIARY OF GOOD INTENTIONS
- IN SEARCH OF SCOTLAND
- THE MAN WHO MADE MAJORCA
- 'MY COUSIN DATES LIZ TAYLOR'
- THE BALLROOM DAYS OF JACK CHAPMAN
- FRAGRANCE OF THE GARDEN FESTIVAL
- WHAT A CENTURY!
- ESCAPE TO THE ORIENT
- HOW I CHASED CHARLIE CHAPLIN
- THE GLAMOUR OF MARY GARDEN
- THE SCOTS CONNECTION OF EDVARD GRIEG
- ALASTAIR PEARSON-MAN OF COURAGE
- A WARTIME DIARY-THE FINAL DAYS
- WHY ALY BAIN WAS PLAYING THAT NIGHT
- CLASSROOM HOWLERS
- TO AUSTRALIA IN NINETY MINUTES?
- WHAT THE CENSOR SAID ABOUT THE LION
- FLORA GARRY-TRUE VOICE OF DIALECT
- THE SURPRISE I FACED IN DUBROVNIK
- THE WONDERFUL VISION OF WILLIAM QUARRIER
- THE SKUNKS WHO CAN STEAL FROM THE SICK
- ALONE BY THE GRAVE OF GRASSIC GIBBON
- SO YOU'VE NEVER TASTED SKIRLIE?
- THERE'S HUMOUR IN THE KIRKYARD
- WHO DRIES BETWEEN THEIR TOES?
- WHEN THE HIGHLAND SHOW WENT ROUND AND ROUND
- AN EXCITING NEW ROAD TO THE ISLES
- THE DAY I COVERED A ROYAL WEDDING
- ROMANCE OF THE OLD STEAM ENGINE
- A NEW HILTON-AND GLASGOW HAS ARRIVED
- MY TRIBUTE TO LUIGI ZANRE
- WHAT DID BERNARD SHAW SAY ABOUT IT?
- SCOTS WHO FOUNDED THE RAF
- GIANTS OF JOURNALISM
- REVOLUTION ON THE LAND
- THE STRANGE TALE OF AIKEY FAIR
- HERO IN A BLUE SERGE SUIT
- FAMOUS SHIPS OF THE CLYDE
- MY THANKS TO TURRIFF
- WHY CHURCHILL TOOK A SHINE TO YOUNG JONES
- THE CHANGING FACE OF RUSSIA
- GEORGE ORWELL WAS WRITING A CLASSIC
- THE BIG PICNIC
- IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW..
- PETER MANUEL-MASS MURDERER
- THE NIGHTMARE OF LOCKERBIE
- WHAT BETTY HADDEN MEANT TO ME
- THE MAN WHO PORTRAYED MY FATHER
- THE DAY I HOOKED THE GILLIE
- THE PRIDE AND POVERTY OF INDIA
- A NIGHT WHEN EDEN WOULD HAVE ENJOYED HERSELF
- GEORGE FRASER-STILL MASTER WORDSMITH AT 100
- THE LEGEND OF OL' BLUE EYES
- ON THE LONELY SHORE
- SIR FITZROY-REAL-LIFE JAMES BOND?
- REMEMBERING ARTHUR ARGO
- MY FRIEND 'MAD MITCH'
- THE GENIUS OF FRANCIE AND JOSIE
- THE DAY I CONDUCTED AT THE ROYAL CONCERT HALL
- CALIFORNIA-HERE I COME!
- WALKING BACK TO HAPPINESS
- MY GLITTERING NIGHT
- THE KINDNESS OF FRIENDS .
- THE ENIGMA OF JIM RODGER
- THE POWER OF THE SCOTS
- THE LAST OF JOHN MAJOR
- WHEN I WAS JUST SIXTEEN
- THE LEGEND OF BUSBY, STEIN AND SHANKLY
- LABOUR'S LANDSLIDE
- THE JIM CLARK STORY
- MY FOUNDER'S DAY ORATION
- HOW CULLODEN GAVE RISE TO NEWSPAPERS
- TRAGEDY OF DIANA
- BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT
