Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only footballer Cleo O'Donnell was able to garner more than one hit off fast-ball artist Bill Bowler for the school-boys, but Brooks Heath touched him for a homer in the first with two on to start the show, and Paul Butler snapped his ten-game batting slump with a triple...
...invasion's funniest story came from "Fifth Column Headquarters in East Anglia," which announced that a young lieutenant disguised as a butler had made his way into enemy headquarters, served a three-course dinner to the commanding general, then put a box of chocolates into the general's bed. Inside the box was a note: "Dear Sir: This is to inform you that this is a bomb which would have exploded when you touched it with your foot. Yours respectfully, Fifth Columnist...
This week, as death hovered over the fuddy-duddy Transcript, even Boston's hard-boiled reporters were moved to respectful silence. Nostalgia as well as wryness colored the telling of the most famed Transcript legend-that of the butler who announced to his mistress: "There are four reporters here, madam, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
...leading part in its appeal. Fond Bostonians like to recall its stand behind the old Whig party, its Civil War crusade against slavery, its one-family hereditary editorship through Victorian times, and its ultra-conservative woman editor. Nor will Beacon Hill ever live down the day a Brahmin butler announced to madame "three reporters, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
Sandy Macmillan at short, A1 Everts at second, and Brooks Heath, holding down the first sack, together with Butler, make up a green infield which is improving steadily. Macmillan, a left-handed batter, who hits long and hard when he connects, is at present holding the lead-off post in the batting order. Al Everts is batting for .381, and is the most improved member of the team. His tennis experience has given him a good eye for the ball. Heath played in the outfield at school, but handles his first-base job fairly well, although he lacks vital game...