Brett Perkins

When Francis Schmidt, a bow tie–wearing law school graduate with a bombastic personality, got started as a volunteer high school coach, football still followed Victorian tenets of caution and simplicity and often employed fewer than fifty plays. By the time “Frantic Francis” had risen through the ranks of small …

Zep only wanted to get rich, not become entangled in the lives of so many females, and he certainly never expected to fall in love. But that’s what can happen when you buy a tiny women’s college in 1929. Zep Decker is the humorous tale of a scheme that goes wonderfully wrong. Zep’s plan for the school is simple …