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Little Finland has been a burr in a bear's paw. The bear has alternately gone after it with tooth & claw, licked it with honeyed tongue. Before last year's elections, Russia offered the Finns a friendship pact, reduced their reparations debt. The maneuver failed. The Finns trotted off to the polls, returned even fewer Communists to the Diet than they had had before. Last week, on the eve of Finland's presidential election, the bear bared his teeth...
...Burr Tillstrom's first solid job was with a WPA-supported puppet show. "It was terrific," he recalls. "We played everywhere-hospitals, old people's homes, orphanages." But the stirring days faded in 1937. Two years later, Tillstrom was working as a salesclerk when RCA put on a television demonstration in his store. "That did it. The moment I saw TV, I knew it was the one medium made expressly for puppets...
Howard E. Houston: Captain of Varsity Football, Varsity Wrestling, Athletic Council, Varsity Club, Francis H. Burr Scholarship...
...campus of Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss, stands a monument inscribed: "Aaron Burr tried . . . under these oaks, 1807; Andrew Jackson camped here, 1812-1815; Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past, Jefferson Military College had fallen on hard times. Classroom walls were peeling ; desks were worn beyond repair. There were hardly enough students (48) in its high-school classes to keep the place going. Then, a few weeks ago, along came Judge George W. Armstrong...
Instead of the bare walls and shelves of the old library, the common room boasts baby pink walls, leather chairs and couches, and a liberal sprinkling of original oil paintings. Among these are a Utrillo and three paintings left to the Fogg Museum by the late Allston Burr '89, once an Overseer of the college and donstor of the Varsity Club...