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SCOTLAND'S BURNING (300 pp.)-Nathaniel Burl-Little, Brown...
...conscious kin, in Novelist Burl's mind, to the celebrated anti-vice crusader of the same name. Burt picked his hero's given name first, and Comstock "just popped up" from the Burt subconscious to go with...
...want to read the up-to-date stuff. Then they've got the Woodberry poetry room, with Swedish redwood panelling and three-thousand-dollar turntables four feet high. Of course nobody's interested in poetry much any more, but the boys from Humanities 130 slipped in some Burl Ives' records with obscene lyrics and zither accompaniment, and the place is really jumping now. They have the forum room, too; that's for football movies...
...Executive Vice President Burl S. (for Stevens) Watson, 59, became president of Cities Service Co., succeeding W. Alton Jones, 62, who moved up to board chairman. Watson, who joined Cities Service 36 years ago as an engineer, helped President Jones reorganize Cities Service's widely spread companies into a single system, disposing of its electric and natural-gas utilities, and concentrating on its oil and natural gas business...
...Burl Ives (Columbia). An early welcome to Christmas, with a spuriously hearty number entitled Grandfather Kringle and a traditional English song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, which is one of the prettiest seasonal songs of the year...