Word: burled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chairman of billion-dollar-a-year Cities Service Co., Burl Stevens Watson, 67, drawls self-effacingly, "I'm just an average man. There's no romance in my story." But last week Alabama-bred Oilman Watson made stories all over the nation's business pages. At midweek Cities Service won an Interior Department contract to extract, process and sell to the U.S. up to $9.1 million a year worth of helium, production of which the Government previously monopolized. Next day Watson announced plans for a $108 million stock swap to acquire Columbian Carbon Co., an $80 million...
...father, Raymond Massey thunders wondrously, but he often seems faintly embarrassed by the part, and much of the time speaks with a flatness that would startle even Jason Robards, Jr. Julie Harris is her usual elfin self; and Burl Ives, the sheriff, is paternal and friendly...
...Burl Ives Sings "Little White Duck" and Other Children's Favorites (Columbia). Big Daddy thrums his guitar and sings Mr. Froggie Went A-Courtin', The Grey Goose, and the rest, with a voice that is clear as a mountain stream and cozy as sitting by the fire. In the path of Burl's music, the weather of a child's mind seems to turn sunny, rapt, calm...
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger (Folkways). Only a tossed coin could choose between Burl Ives and Pete Seeger in folk-song appeal. Purists may find Seeger's numbers a shade more authentic or the twang of his guitar a trifle more personable...
...mildly, brilliant. He is the illegitimate son of a convicted killer and B-Girl Winters, who is hooked by-and sleeping with-a dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...