Word: butterfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Getting Out. It was firms like Jardine's and Butterfield & Swire, hoping to do business with the Communists, that did much to persuade the British Labor government to recognize Mao Tse-tung. In British-held Hong Kong, trade with China skyrocketed. The artificial prosperity did not last. On the mainland, the Communists imposed confiscatory taxes on foreign enterprises, shut off trade, and while refusing to allow workers to be fired, denied exit permits to some 700 British nationals...
President Victor L. Butterfield of Connecticut College also put forth similar proposals yesterday. He advocated greater intramural athletic programs, and the abolition of spring practice, which has been done by the Little Three as well as Yale...
...Butterfield also proposed that colleges abolish long pre-season practices, abolish long trips, limit practice time, play teams only in the colleges' own class and group, and insist that athletes on scholarships remain in the top half of their class...
...famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with the help of only one paid hand. He wangles free manuscripts from members of the American Association for State and Local History, his chief backer, and name writers, e.g., Carl Carmer, Roger Butterfield, who are also interested in livening up history. Editor Newton's biggest problem is to get his scholarly contributors to write a colorful style instead of "plodding into the facts and proceeding in dull and orderly fashion to the conclusion" and to get the articles in on time. "But when...
...people: those who get hurt easily and those who have a genius for hurting them. His victims and victimizers usually meet in scenes charged with emotional or physical violence, frequently both, and almost always the heel has a field day at the expense of someone better but weaker (Butterfield 8, Appointment in Samarra, scores of tough, tense short stories). Usually O'Hara makes it plain that heels annoy him almost as strongly as he is drawn to them. In his last novel, the bestselling A Rage to Live, he was almost as sympathetic to the betraying wife...