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That isn't all. Pudgy hammer-thrower Jim Burnham has broken the Dartmouth record in his event this spring and last week he won the Penn Relays hammer throw at about 171 feet. He may scare Sam Felton into hitting 180 feet today. Felton broke the Harvard record two weeks ago with a shot of 175 feet, 2 inches. This competition, plus the Kimball versus Pat McCormick duel in the 120 high and 220 low hurdles should provide the most spectator interest this afternoon...
Answering charges leveled by New York University Professor James Burham accusing him of continously finding excuses for Soviet activities. Dr. Shapley explained that "possibly Professor Burnham was acting on a directive from the J. Parnell Thomas Committee...
Sindlinger, not content with mass testing, is also experimenting with mass writing by "established writers." One such established writer is Professor James (The Struggle for The World) Burnham of New York University. His first screen play is being "developed by Mr. Burnham and the editorial staff" of the Workshop, with the help of what Sterling North calls the "collective wisdom of the American people...
There was a whole shelf of books on Russia and the Russian problem, ranging in viewpoint from Earl Browder's pro-Soviet War or Peace with Russia? to ex-Communist James Burnham's The Struggle for the World, which regards compromise with Russia as dangerous folly. Hal Lehrman went to the Balkans as a pro-Soviet correspondent, had his eyes opened by the totalitarian steamroller in action, described it convincingly in Russia's Europe...
Died. Major Frederick Russell Burnham, 86, oldtime Indian scout, Klondike prospector, soldier of fortune; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Barbara, Calif. At various times a cowboy, stagecoach-guard and deputy sheriff, Burnham fought in campaigns against the Apaches, in South Africa's bloody Matabele Wars (which he virtually ended singlehanded by killing the Matabele god M'Limo in a cave), and in the Boer War. Back home in California, he struck it rich in the oil business, spent the rest of his life in prosperous comfort...