tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post114712518780876760..comments2023-10-17T06:08:27.032-05:00Comments on Grantian Florilegium: In Memorium: Otto Scottgileskirkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1147560896047131902006-05-13T17:54:00.000-05:002006-05-13T17:54:00.000-05:00Julie: You're right. Thanks. I've corrected the...Julie: You're right. Thanks. I've corrected the post.gileskirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11546229381528820614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1147402646220940032006-05-11T21:57:00.000-05:002006-05-11T21:57:00.000-05:00Otto Scott actually has four surviving daughters -...Otto Scott actually has four surviving daughters - Liz, Katie, Mary and Philippa.julieannericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394952666669781213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1147209772158128362006-05-09T16:22:00.000-05:002006-05-09T16:22:00.000-05:00In 1997, I bought a used copy of Otto Scott's indu...In 1997, I bought a used copy of Otto Scott's industrial biography of Ashland Oil. It was embossed with "From the library of Dr. and Mrs. Armand Hammer." I thought this was ironic and wrote Scott about it. He replied:<BR/><BR/>"[T]he news that Armand Hammer had a copy of my history of Ashland Oil reminds me that some years back the CEO of Ashland, Orin Atkins, was engaged in merger talks with Hammer's firm, Occidental Petroleum. <BR/><BR/>He recommended that if Hammer ever chose to have a history of himself or Occidental (indistinguishable from one another at the time) that I might be chosen. To seal the recommendation he sent Hammer the copy you now have in your hand (Attn: Small World Department). <BR/><BR/>At any rate, I received (in due course) a note from Hammer's secretary, saying in effect, "Thanks but no thanks," to my disappointment. I sincerely wanted to interview that monster, who (at the time) was cordially received in the White House from the time of Franklin Roosevelt onward, as well as at Buckingham Palace by Prince Charles, in the Kremlin, our State Dept, etcx. He _never_ received a critical article in our mainline media; as a friend of the USSR he was a hero to liberals everywhere. But I had some backgound information from Standard Oil that painted a different picture. All now, unfortunately, obsolete.<BR/><BR/>Hammer did, of course, select an author from the New York establishment, who wrote a shameless panegyric, which is now only of some slight interest as a sample of the stupid and treacherous media sellout of Ameria still, alas, underway."<BR/><BR/>ofsoldfatslowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16090493770521723251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1147129533015678232006-05-08T18:05:00.000-05:002006-05-08T18:05:00.000-05:00Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Mr....Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Mr. Scott was a delightful and brilliant man. His book on John Brown has forever reframed the way we have to look at Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Mr. Scott was converted after he was 50, and his lifetime experiences--both actual and through his extensive readings--all gave him a brilliant perspective on Christian truths. His health problems of recent years makes this news a topic of rejoicing rather than mourning.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com