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...Burgess, though he preferred the company of the able to the artistic, also moved on the edge of the same world. He was of a very different physique, tall-medium in height, with blue eyes, an inquisitive nose, sensual mouth, curly hair and alert fox-terrier expression. He was immensely energetic, a great talker, reader, boaster, walker, who swam like an otter and drank, not like a feckless undergraduate as Donald was apt to do, but like some Rabelaisian bottle-swiper whose thirst was unquenchable...
Winners were also announced for the Clemens Herschel book awards ($30 for each recipient). They go to B. Lee Staggie, Jr. '55, William R. Samples 2G, Fredrick J. Burgess 1G, and Mark J. Beran 2G. All did "meritorious work in the field of practical hydraulics...
Winners were also announced for the Clemens Herschel book awards ($20 for each recipient). They go to E. Leo Slaggie, Jr. '56, William R. Samples 2G, Fredrick J. Burgess 1G, and Mark J. Beran 3G. All did "meritorious work in the field of practical hydraulics...
...points up every other fault in the show. The rest of the cast ranges from competent to far worse, but unfortunately the former are all in minor roles. Margaret Groome, for example, as Prossy is sharp when she should be and yielding when Shaw has a point to make. Burgess, played by David Brooke, misses most of the opportunities for the broad comedy of the second act. But he has his accent pretty well under control, pronounced and yet distinguishable. Keith Gardiner, as Lexy, with the smallest part is unexceptionable. Were all the players as adequate as Gardiner, there would...
...defending the training program against the label of Universal Military Training, Defense Department spokesmen exposed a more dangerous flaw in the proposed system. "UMT would permit youths to discharge their military obligations quickly" declared Assistant Secretary of Defense Chester Burgess, author of the bill. "The Administration program imposes lengthy military obligations on the reserve men, just as on draftees for the regular army." By requiring nine and a half years of weekly drill and summer camps from the reservists, and six years of the same training from men who have completed two years of active duty, the Administration bill saddles...