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...caught up with Tyrus R. ("Ty")Cobb. High in California's Sierra, the 60-year-old Georgia Peach was driving with his onetime housekeeper, 38-year-old Lucille La Pointe. When she was nabbed for a traffic violation, Cobb started riding the justice of the peace from the sidelines. The justice blew up, jailed Cobb for "being drunk on the public highway," later released him on $25 bail...
Proper Names. In Haverhill, Mass., William Peach was married to Annie Cann. In New Orleans, cops stopped an unlicensed hotdog business operated by Messrs. Irving Veal & Louis Baloney...
...needn't have fretted on either count. The sun shone brightly over Buckingham Palace for their Majesties' second presentation garden party of the year. "It's a plummy peach of a day, isn't it?" said chic Peggy Douglas, wife of U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, in the diplomatic tea tent. As for curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick...
...plots, fenced in with any stray piece of wood or wire. Kids romp in the wide-rutted clay streets, while fathers & mothers are off rebuilding the city, and an old babushka hangs out the washing on a line stretched over a gooseberry bush from a young peach tree to a young cherry tree. Even in the middle of the city, chickens scrabble among the ruins...
...peach and never...