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Executive Director of all Life Camps since 1925 is Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, a 42-year-old Kansan. The covered wagon idea is his, as well as the broad educational aims of the camps. He started life as a farm boy, went to Kansas State Teachers' College, served in the Navy during the World War. After graduate work at Columbia University, and research for the New York City Board of Education, he joined Life Camps armed with a complete plan of reorganization. Dr. Sharp, who describes himself as the father of a Girl Scout, considers his job only half...
...entertainment industry which is professionally known as the "meat show," has been subject to a terrific handicap from the shadow show of cinema, first as a competitor, now as an all-consuming parasite. A cynical analysis of this situation was voiced early by sandy-haired, hot-headed Burgess Meredith, youngest featured actor on Broadway, who saluted the Broadway managers thus...
...Ranger repeats her model's victory against the challenger this summer, it will be the third in a row not only for Skipper Vanderbilt but also for Ranger's head designer, William Starling Burgess. If his boat defends the Cup successfully, Starling Burgess will equal the record made by his father, Edward Burgess, whose Puritan, Mayflower and Volunteer defended the Cup in 1885, 1886 and 1887 and made him the most famed yacht designer...
Resignations of Wilbur Cortez Abbott, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, and Dr. George Burgess Magrath '94, professor of legal medicine at the Medical School, effective next September 1, were announced yesterday. Goth will become professor emeritus...
...Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country's ablest classical actors, to take the leading role and that morning Burgess Meredith (High Tor, Winterset), the most promising juvenile on the U. S. stage, had walked in, asked for and been given a part. With notables waiting in the control room, with the 200 supers and actors standing by to go on the air, Bang! opened the Armory door and Whooash...