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Besides Davis, five other men were elected to honorary membership yesterday. They are Dr. James B. Ayer '03, well-known neurologist; John N. Burk '16, music historian; Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law; Francis Keppel '38, dean of the Graduate School of Education; and Frederick R. Weed '28, headmaster of Roxbury Latin...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Elmer Davis Details Threats To Survival of Civilization | 6/9/1953 | See Source »

Penn has also turned in victories over Princeton and Yale, but neither of them so decisive as Navy's. Joe Burk's eight had an open date last Saturday...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: Underdog Crimson Races Penn, Navy In Adams Cup Crew Regatta Today | 5/10/1952 | See Source »

...reached the point in Wagner's life where her material might have shed fresh light. Thereupon, Mary Burrell's collection was locked away. Finally, thanks to Philadelphia's Mary Louise Curtis Bok (Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist), who bought the collection in 1931, and to John N. Burk, scholarly program annotator of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who spent years collating and editing it, the Letters of Richard Wagner went to press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: End of the Trail | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

Articulation. As Editor Burk sees it, there were four times in self-centered Richard Wagner's life when he "really lost his head over a woman." His love for Minna was violent, "but because it had no basis in artistic sympathy could not last." He was drawn to two others but "the circumstance .. . tore them apart." (The precise circumstance: they were both married.) But such circumstances did not stop Wagner from running off with the wife of his friend Hans von Bülow, who conducted the first performance of Tristan. Cosima von Bülow, illegitimate daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: End of the Trail | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Chapple 11 18 12 48 Clark, l.f. 14 57 29 143 Wolfe 6 3 0 6 Koene, c. 13 39 15 93 Noble 14 24 5 53 Jonkins 2 8 7 23 Collins, r.g. 15 14 10 38 Mackintosh 9 2 3 7 Wallace, l.g. 13 28 12 68 Burk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Standish on Top in Photo Finish As Intramural Tournament Ends | 2/16/1945 | See Source »

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