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...casualty rate was running one-third more than last summer. In one case, while two patrolmen probed the East River for the body of a boy who had drowned, a gang of teen-agers stood on a pier and threw rocks at them. Later, when Patrolman Stanley Butch jumped off the pier in an effort to save a drowning man, the kids stole his hat, shoes, watch and $5, which he had left ashore...
Lieut. General Francis H. ("Butch") Griswold (Commandant, National War College...
From Australia last week, terrible-tempered Butch Buchholz, 20, and Barry MacKay, 25, dealt another blow to U.S. amateur tennis. Having barely finished throwing the last racket, raising the last locker-room rumpus and blowing the last match to the Italians in the Davis Cup eliminations (TIME, Dec. 26), Buchholz and MacKay announced that they were fed up with the "hypocrisy" of amateur tennis and were turning...
...since 1936 had the Americans been shut out. Resigned to defeat, the Italians had even reserved seats on a plane flight leaving for home right after their matches with the U.S. The very first day of play nearly put the Italians on the plane: the U.S.'s belligerent Butch Buchholz, 20, beat Sirola 6-8, 7-5, 11-9, 6-2, and brooding Barry MacKay, 25, defeated Pietrangeli, 8-6, 3-6, 8-10, 8-6, 13-11. Muffling his sobs in a towel, Pietrangeli, the man the Roman fans call "Maritozzo" (Sugar Bun), had to sponge away...
Swirbul liked to exhibit Navy aces to the workers, and while doing so pick up tips on how to make better fighting planes. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare (five Japanese bombers shot down and another crippled in a single engagement) visited the plant, talked of the need for a bigger, faster, more heavily armed fighter. Swirbul listened attentively. Within seven months the F6F Hellcat was rolling off the production line, the first U.S. fighter designed after Pearl Harbor to get into action...