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...style. St. Paul's boys, who called him "The Drip" long before that phrase had its present teenage connotation, never took him to their hearts, but educators knew Dr. Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took aim at a target he and his listeners knew well: the "independent" school (e.g. Choate, St. Paul's). Excerpts...
From Rome Winston Burdett reported: "I've been able to find only one place that would rate as a nightclub in New York. It's called the 'Crocodile,' and the membership comprises a few black marketeers with aristocratic pretentions, and a sprinkling of former film stars. . . . Rome's night life begins early, at 4 or 5 in the afternoon...
...Carlson's and Jimmy Roosevelt's raiders on the Makin Island raid in the summer of 1942. There are men whose exploits are legendary in the service: "Mush" Morton, big, amiable skipper of the Wahoo, one of four submarines to win a Presidential citation; Commander Frederick Burdett ("Peanuts") Warder, a mild-appearing, silent man whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno, who took the Trout into Corregidor with ammunition and brought...
...Winston Burdett of CBS stood huddled in the cockpit of his plane, between the pilots. "Far below us lay the blue sheet of the Mediterranean and off to the right we saw the coast of Greece, barren and beautiful, with jagged mountains cutting down...
High Street in Oxford has seen some strange sights. One day last week it saw another. Attired in velvet smoking jacket, with an orchid, a lily and a white harebell in his buttonhole, David Burdett, Queen's College undergraduate, paraded up & down in front of the East Gate pub, opposite his college. He was attended by two sandwich men, whose signs read: "Rita is Unfair to David...