Word: burnette
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simple. When Butts's suit came to trial last week, the Post led off, since the defense has the burden of proving truth. First major witness was Atlanta Insurance Salesman George Burnett, who claimed to have been an accidental eavesdropper on a pregame phone call between Butts and Bryant. It was Burnett's notes on what he said he heard that were the basis of the Post expos...
...stand, Burnett stuck to his story. He had been trying to make an other call when he found himself listening to a conversation between the two coaches. He had heard Butts give Bryant "detailed information about the plays and formations Georgia would use." Georgia's present coach, Johnny Griffith, and his assistants testified next; they claimed that such information would almost surely have been helpful to any opposing coach...
...testimony and cross-examination ground on, it became clear that the Post's case was not quite that simple. Writer Graham had already admitted that he had turned out the story without ever seeing Burnett's notes. Although the article accused Butts of telling Bryant that the Georgia quarterback tipped off pass plays by the way he placed his feet, Burnett said that he had never heard Butts mention that fact. Coach Griffith added that his quarterback was better than that, anyway...
...Post article claimed. He denied ever telling University of Georgia officials that he would resign if Butts stayed on as athletic director. He denied that his players had come to the sidelines during the game and claimed that they had been sold out. Part of the stuff in Burnett's notes, said Coach Griffith, made no sense to him; part seemed to have no relation to the Georgia team; part was true but was no secret to any competent coach. Griffith could hardly have corrected any of those errors before publication. The Post, he said, never checked his quotes...
...knowledge is interesting; but to Mrs. Carlson, it means little that two Harvard Medical School researchers studied porphyria patients to find out whether a major change in the porphyrin content of their skin takes place before or after exposure to sunlight. Dr. J. W. Burnett and Dr. M. A. Pathak examined two victims and three healthy subjects, both after long confinement indoors and after exposure to the sun. In the people with porphyria, output of porphyrin compounds rose sharply after exposure to the light; the others showed no change. Sunlight, the doctors concluded, increases the concentration of porphyrin...