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...Raymond Burr, 42, gives Erie Stanley Gardner s invincible legal Eye Perry Mason, the first TV face he has had since the reports of his cases started spraying from the presses (62 books in 26 years) Sad-eyed, spade-jowled Actor Burr fits Mason to the last wrinkle of his frown-tor the simple reason that Author Gardner never yet has got around to describing his hero. A so-so player for ten years in Hollywood, Burr closed in on Mason with the tenacity of a man who has landed the big role at last. He studied courtroom procedure, lectured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: These Gunns for Hire | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Sponsored by the Harvard golf team in honor of a friend and supporter of Crimson golf, the tournament, which is open to both graduates and undergraduates, will take place Thursday and Friday at the Sandy Burr Country Club in Wayland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. Offers Trophy In New Golf Tourney | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

Jerrold R. Zacharias, professor of Physics at M.I.T., will give a lecture-demonstration at 8 p.m. Monday in Burr B on methods of teaching physics to large groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zacharias to Discuss Audio-Visual Method Of Giving Physics | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

...garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner of the studio is the figure whose making reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maker of Images | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

August 6, 3 p.m., Lecture, '"Friedrich Schiller and Ideal Drama," Stuart P. Atkins, in Burr Hall B; 8:30 p.m., lecture "On the Theatre," Robert Whitehead, executive producer, Producers Theatre, in Lowell Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Events of This Week | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

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