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...summer has passed, Allston Burr Hall still stands on the spot where the new wing is supposed to rise, and it appears that, at the earliest, construction could begin next fall...
...Varsity Club has moved across the river to Carey Cage, a space formerly used for storing stadium concessionaires. To make matters a bit more confusing, the old Varsity Club building, now occupied by History and Lit and the Committee on Degrees in Literature has been renamed Burr Hall. The old Burr Hall will be torn down to make room for the new wing of the Fogg Museum...
Screening the nominees will be the "Corporation-Overseers-Faculty Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees." This year's members are: Francis H. Burr '35, senior fellow of the College; Joan T. Bok '51, an Overseer; Dudley R. Herschbach, Baird Professor of Science; Robert J. Kiely, professor of English; George W. MacRae, Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies; Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Higginson Professor of History; Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, Rotch Professor of Pediatrics; and Fred L. Glimp '50, vice president for alumni affairs and development...
...know my size has gotten me jobs." Among actors who might be on any producer's list: Orson Welles, an epic creator who is known to the television generation as the butt of Johnny Carson's fat jokes; William Conrad, TV's Nero Wolfe; Raymond Burr, old Ironside; and Burt Young, the Gibraltar of Rocky. Perhaps the most stereotyped of all is Victor Buono. Fat from childhood, Buono reached 400 Ibs. before a recent diet took him down to 350. He played Bette Davis' father in Hush, Hush'. . . Sweet Charlotte when...
...Burr's letter dealt the decisive blow to the proposals for other forms of memorial. He stated that "all subscriptions to the Harvard War Memorial have been given for a church. To use the fund for any other form of memorial would be a breach of trust. Many subscribers, and some for large sums, are dead...