Word: puffers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what they both need is a castle. The difficulty is, shipping is scarce in the Hebrides, and nobody can be found to cart the last ?4,000 worth of plumbing to the island in time for the great day. Nobody, that is, but Captain MacTaggert (Alex Mackenzie) of the puffer Maggie...
...puffer is a boat that has to be seen to be adequately disbelieved. A tiny Scottish freighter that carries a small crew (the Maggie has four) and barely enough freight to make ends meet, it looks like nothing so much as a seagoing haggis, and not a very clean one at that. When Douglas realizes that his precious plumbing has actually been shipped in such a boat, he rushes to the rescue with a full panoply of American Efficiency: chartered planes, long-distance calls, press conferences, do-it-yourself. He is met by Scots Canniness: the wandering eye, the mislaid...
Coach Bobby Coombs will have either righthander Mike Puffer (4-2) or southpaw John Beard (4-0) ready for the Crimson. Batters Bill Callaghan, Pete Connolly, and Harry Sheehy all have averages over...