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...Piccadilly one day, a giant (6 ft. 4 in.) California javelin thrower named Butch Likins decided to improve on the ineffective way a pushcart peddler hawked his peaches. Butch took over. His basso-profundo split the damp London air: "Ripe, juicy, California peaches! Buy your peaches here." When the fruit was sold Butch turned the money over to the peddler, said, "Now, that's the way they sell peaches in California...
...delegates gathered in the Riverside's ballroom to show true "democratic forces" at work. The "capitalist" press was barred. A square-set man with a butch haircut, and with a handful of husky aides, guarded the ballroom door...
...whom she has always idolized, he gets her drunk-a state which Miss Allyson communicates with more charm and taste than most movie stars of either sex. When she sobers, she is outraged. It is necessary to pretend that the genius is driven to drink by a delinquent son (Butch Jenkins), who is borrowed from an orphanage. And so on. Such busy plotting would barely skin by in a play for high-school amateurs, and everybody except Miss Allyson, who would probably put her whole heart into stuff even thinner, plays it in that slothful spirit. But the picture...
...Varsity Club welcomes new football coach Art Valpey and assistants "Butch" Jordan, Davy Jones, and Elmen Madar this afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in the first such luncheon since the war. Others present will include spring head coaches Tom Bolles. Jaakko Mikkola and Dolph Samborski, as well as the captains of all major Crimson teams...
Avon had been a fancy prep school for rich kids until the middle of World War II. Now it was getting ready to reopen in the fall. The school's new head had hired Butch (for 50? a week) to live in the place, so he could see how an ordinary boy would improve on the carefully arranged surroundings. The new head, Provost Donald W. Pierpont, 41, needed all the hints he could get to make sense out of the "Deed of Trust" that the school's founder had left behind...