Word: burnette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burnett Magruder, radio and TV coordinator for the Louisville Council of Churches, told the Louisville Ministerial Association that they are too casual about broadcasting and telecasting. "The Protestant clergy is in danger of taking a colorless, common-denominator approach. Ministers do not evaluate [broadcast] time as highly as they should. The modern minister is skillful in the art of almost saying something...
Married. J osephine Abercrombie, 28, shapely, blonde Houston horsewoman (winner of ten of eleven firsts for harness ponies in last year's National Horse Show), heiress to a $50 million Texas oil fortune; and H. Burnett Robinson, 36, manager of the Abercrombie racing stable; she for the third time, he for the second; in Versailles...
...Indianapolis, arrested by police, Alonso Burnett explained that the two-foot blackjack in his car was useful for tamping the dirt in flower beds...
...From Here to Eternity, voted best picture, picked up seven other Oscars as well: best supporting actor, Frank Sinatra; best supporting actress, Donna Reed; best director, Fred Zinnemann; best black & white cinematography, Burnett Guffy; best screenplay, Daniel Taradash; best film editing, William Lyon; best sound recording, John P. Livadary...
Like many of Fitzgerald's collegiate characters, Steve Burnett, the hero of Senior Spring, ranges from boorishness to sophistication. But author Lumbard fails to justify Burentt's varying attitudes. If Lumbard meant to convey the restlessness of the period, he is not consistent in that attempt, and if he meant to give him any outstanding quality, it is lost in a maze of contradiction. Only with Cassy Kane does he achieve any greatness as a character. In a love affair marred by the shadow of a past abortion, and the grim truth of a present one, there is still...