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...first twenty in order are: Dave Goldthwaite, Bungy King, Bill Thurston, Dick Whittemore, John Burr, Harry Motley, Dick Shepley, Captain Tom Winship, Finn Ferner, Fred Coolidge, Herb Weiner, Eliot Richardson, Buck Anderson, Gerry Davis, Ed Dickson, Herby Greene, Harry Hollmeyer, Fred Peccy-Blunt, Dave Wilson, Steve Bittenbender, and Phil Field...
...ship, and he doesn't like to send sailors up aloft when it's blowing and they're liable to get killed, so he quits. And then he goes to a pub and gets lit and there he meets Will Fyffe, who is fat and so Scotch that his burr sticks onto him after he's finished talking. now Will is an engineer and he acts like he's off his rocker, but he's really only a genius. He dreams about steam engines at night. So these two get together and the "Dog Star" sails across the Atlantic. Steam...
Bradford Washburn '33, director of the New England Museum of Natural History and instructor at the Geographical Institute, was awarded the Franklin L. Burr prize of $1,000 for his aerial photography in Alaska...
...occasionally to quote from memory long passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright Johnson, one of Texas' most eloquent bull-roarers, snorted that conspiracy testimony was stronger against Shook and Burkett, bellowed: "I don't think there is a man on the jury who would send a burr-headed nigger through a cracked gate or fine him a five-cent piece on the evidence they have in this case...
Nick Charles reluctantly interrupts his drinking this time when guests of harumphing Colonel Burr McFay (C. Aubrey Smith) are awakened by a shot to find that the old man's throat has been cut. Suspect are various heirs and retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who has perfected the cutest blackmailing trick of the year. He dreams twice that people die. If he dreams it a third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife...