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Word: burrier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly elected officers of the Harvard Philatelic Society are Alan H. Master '52, president; Thomas J. Wilson '51, vice-president; Vasco McCoy '49, treasurer; Clarke Robinson '51, secretary; and Walter P. Burrier, Jr. '50, librarian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stamp Society Elects Officers for 1949-50 | 3/12/1949 | See Source »

When Don Mishara, maestro selected to do the musical honors for the Lowell House dance this Friday, breaks into the strains of "Lost Without You" by Walter P. Burrier '50, it will doubtless bring a wistful tear into the eye of the author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night in Rome Plus Girl Back Home Still Leaves Music Publishers Frigid | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

...sold the tune to the girl," says Burrier, "and now all I have to do is put it over on a publisher." In reality, however, the road from Miss White's drawing room to the hit parade has already found some sympathetic professional ears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night in Rome Plus Girl Back Home Still Leaves Music Publishers Frigid | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

Franco Mele, one of Rome's leading night club pianists, was struck to the core by the persuasive lilt of Burrier's song, and when $35 and a carton of American cigarettes was added to the call of the muse, he made a 9 piece arrangement of "Lost Without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night in Rome Plus Girl Back Home Still Leaves Music Publishers Frigid | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

...song caught on rapidly, and was a favorite in hot spots from Naples to Leghorn by the time Burrier left Italy in 1948. Back in Boston Burrier had a recording made by Preston Sandiford, a Negro pianist, which caught the attention of Wright Briggs, a pianist of Raykov's orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night in Rome Plus Girl Back Home Still Leaves Music Publishers Frigid | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

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