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Award of the Francis H. Burr Scholarship, one of Harvard's foremost undergraduate honors, to Chester Kaufman Litman '35, of Brookline, Mass., a member of the Harvard football and track teams, was announced by the Committee on Scholarships of Harvard College last night, subject to approval by the Harvard Corporation...
...scholarship was established in 1914 in memory of Francis H. Burr, A.B., 1909, by his friends, for award each year to a Senior who "combines as nearly as possible Burr's remarkable qualities of character, leadership, scholarship, and athletic ability." The recipient is selected by the Dean of Harvard College and the Chairman of the Athletic Committee, and receives the gift in his fourth year, together with a copy of the memorial life of Burr...
...Burr Scholarship has been awarded to a notable group of Harvard students in recent years, all of whom have made distinguished records in scholarship and athletics. Last year the scholarship was awarded to Richard G. Ames '34, of Wayland, Mass., President of the Student Council and captain of the University wrestling team...
Small Miracle (by Norman Krasna; Courtney Burr, producer) attempts, with considerable success, to make a Grand Hotel of the lounge in a Manhattan theatre. In the narrow space between the Men's Room and the Ladies' Room are packed a half-dozen plots and subplots. There is the harassed man whose wife is having a baby, the callow collegian who gets caught lying to his sweetheart, the burly youth who finds it embarrassing to have just married a scrawny dowager, the bewildered old couple from the country. There is, too, the graciously unfaithful wife (Ilka Chase) who discovers...
...John Stewart Baker, 40, chairman of the second oldest private bank in New-York, $502,000,000 Bank of the Manhattan Co. Like his father Stephen before him he was president of the bank at 34, and his great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...