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...riots in Burma are of two kinds, arising from the fact that Burmans hate Indians as much as Englishmen. Fortnight ago native Buddhists put on a real riot against Hindu immigrants, and you could hear police sticks chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay. Twenty-four persons were killed. Last summer there were more serious Burman-Indian riots which killed 200 and wounded nearly 1,000. They were caused by: 1) the rifling by Hindus of a sacred pagoda which contained one of Buddha's teeth; 2) the distribution by Hindus of a pamphlet containing passages insulting to Buddha. Burma...
...YORK--Tommy Farr of Wales is a 12-5 favorite to achieve his first American victory tomorrow night when he meets Clarence "Red" Burman of Baltimore, Jack Dempsey's protege, in the feature 10-round bout of an all-heavyweight card at Madison Square Garden...
BLOW FOR A LANDING-Ben Lucien Burman-Houghton Mifflin...
Mark Twain covered the same ground and water 50 years ago, so readers were not surprised that Ben Burman's novels (Mississippi, Steamboat Round the Bend) did not come up to Huckleberry Finn; surprising was the fact that Author Burman should find as much good old-time stuff as he has. His best find yet, the shanty-boat hero of Blow for a Landing, though by no means as much of a fellow as Huck Finn, is at least of the breed...
Seating at banquet was by numbers drawn from a hat. Chance arranged that the Prince of Wales should sit between Sergeant William F. Burman, now a chauffeur, who won his cross for silencing a machine gun singlehanded, and John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort, acting Colonel of the aristocratic Grenadier Guards...