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NORTH TO DANGER, by Virgil Burford as told to Walt Morey (254 pp.; John Day $3.75) makes a fine companion piece to Scott's elephant adventure. Diver Burford spent years in Alaska, mostly pirating salmon from cannery-owned traps or diving to the ocean floor to mend the same traps -amidst sharks and 20-foot octopuses. Once Burford was manning the airline on board ship when another diver in the water below rashly tried to spear an octopus. A hairy tentacle shot out, and for three hours the diver (Scotty Evans by name) was caught 70 feet down...
...Foxy. In Burford, England, a nimble fox leaped safely over a broken electric wire, foxily led eleven baying hounds to their deaths by shock. In Luray, Va., another fox jumped into a well, drowned with three of the four pursuing hounds that followed...
...program's cross section includes people with poor eyesight, some illiterates. Average for We, the People is one guest a week who cannot see well enough to read an ordinary script. Last week the docket included a man who could not see at all- blind Musician Leonard Burford. For Guest Burford the script was typed in Braille, and he read it swiftly, accurately...
Died. General Walker Burford Freeman, 91, honorary commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans; in Richmond. He was the father of Dean Allen Weir Freeman of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health, of Editor Douglas Southall Freeman of the Richmond News Leader who last week published the last two volumes of his biography of Robert...
Died. Sir Ernest Burford Horlick, 54, Lord of the Manor of Cowley, chairman of Horlick's Malted Milk Co., Ltd. of London, Wartime R. F. C. captain; after brief illness; in Paris...