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...nearing the deadline for Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News. And dapper Jack Burket, editor recently turned columnist, was blank of ideas. Just in time, he found one, and turned out an essay on the moods of San Francisco at dawn and dusk. Over at the rival Hearst Call-Bulletin, the column seemed to stir memories. Leafing through files, the Hearstlings found an April 23 piece by A.P. Columnist Hal Boyle-on the moods of Manhattan at dawn and dusk. They reprinted the columns side by side, under the heading HO HUM. Sample quotes...
...Burket: "The poet said a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Occasionally it is a pain forever...
Cast of Characters. In Macon, Ga., Agnes Aline Murphy, who had a broken leg, and Anthony Pate Hall, who had a broken leg, went to get a marriage license, were directed to the proper office by Linton Burket, who had a broken...
...famed comedian, suffered a complete nervous breakdown. Speechless, gibbering, he seemed unlikely to recover. Last week he was singing and joking nightly at La Victorie night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony, and Professor Edwin Burket Twitmyer, head of the psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania. Said Dr. Twitmyer: "When he first came to me Tinney couldn't walk on a wide board. A ladder was impossible. I taught him to walk, stepping between the rungs. Now he can climb a ladder." Said Comedian...
...those who have been already selected have graduated within the last five years and all of them are known as excellent players. The first nine men are: Fred M. Tilden, Harvard; F. H. Parker, Dartmouth; Dr. C. W. Plummer, Northwestern University; A. T. Packard, Ann Arbor; H. F. Burket, Oberlin; W. A. Gardner, Yale; Hubbard, Yale; Allen, Yale; Hibbard Ann Arbor. It will start on an eastern trip in May or before, and will play the leading college and amateur clubs...