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Funeral rites for Dr George H. Chase '96, dean emeritus, who died Saturday night, will be held in Memorial Church at 2 p.m. tomorrow, 1. Tucker Burr '79, who died the same evening, will be honored in privates services. Burr was one of three surviving members of his graduating class...
...Burr was class marshal at his 25th reunion and was the key figure in the fund raising for Soldiers Field. He was 93 and had been an investment banker until his retirement in 1942. A prominent philanthropic leader, Burr was director of the National Allied Relief Committee in New York and chairman of the Boston branch...
...half dozen other possible carps--pointed out by Scottish purists--should be duly noted. First, the accents are botched. Natives of the Western Isles speak without a burr (or in Gaelic), and it is said that the purest English in the world can be heard in Inverness, capital of the highlands. Yet the Bonnie Prince Charlie characters sound like a flock of Glasgow longshoremen...
...slalom; at Bad Gas-tein. Competing against Olympic squad members of six nations, Skier Lawrence twisted & turned through the 42-gate course of 1,100 yards in 2102.5, more than three seconds faster than Austria's Erika Mahringer. Third, further boosting U.S. Olympic hopes: Seattle's Janette Burr. CJ ¶Ex-Wisconsin Runner Don Gehrmann, the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile, with a characteristic kick sprint that nipped FBI-Man Fred Wilt by 5 ft. Gehrmann's time, breaking the meet record by more than a second: 4:10.2. Next night, in Boston, Gehrmann did it again. Time...
Andy's one-two-three performance in the three events showed her remarkable versatility. But another U.S. skier, Seattle's Janette Burr, who stays in shape by water skiing in the summer, won the top title. Janette's second place in the downhill and her fifth in the slalom added up, on the basis of elapsed time, to a better performance than Andy's second and third places in the two events. Andy's victory in the giant slalom (Janette was tied for eleventh) did not count in the "combined" totals which decide the Swiss...