Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night Before Christmas (by Sidney Joseph & Laura West Perelman, produced by Courtney Burr) is not a bedtime story. It is a mottled Sing Sing folk tale of a silver-haired confidence man past his prime and a slop-house plug ugly who pair up to crack a bank vault for Christmas. They buy a tired Manhattan luggage shop next door to the bank and start tunneling. Obstructed by unwanted customers, garrulous neighbors, former penmates, they dynamite, not the vault, but a nearby cafeteria, while Santa Claus stuffs their stocking with...
Benry C. Clark '11 of Cambridge, was reelected Secretary of the Association and G. Storer Baldwin '21, of Boston, a member of the firm of Burr, Gannett and Company, bankers, was reelected Treasurer...
...brother in one room in the Chicago slums. With his pals he indulges in fantasies of machine-gunning white enemies. Through an unctuous social worker, Bigger gets a job as chauffeur to the wealthy landlord of the tenement he lives in. The landlord's handsome daughter (Anne Burr) is a neurotic, alcoholic Fellow Traveler who adopts an intimate manner toward Bigger...
...fond of a guide Scotch burr, gang doon tae the Fine Arts and see the new Harry Lauder picture. It's full of highland accents and angular-Scottish faces that smack of the stories of Sir Walter Scott, set against the background of the lochs and the mountains. Harry Lauder is now a very old man but he can still put across a song and play the comic. The ballads he sings are dear to all the hieland lads and lassies who have come over to this country, and most of Boston's Scotch are down at the theatre tapping...
Members of the committee include: Hugh S. Barbour '42, Boston Chairman; Charles S. Borden '43; Carleton Burr '43; E. Langdon Burwell '41; Seth C. Crocker '41; John Dorman '36, proctor in Matthews Hall; Richard D. Edwards '41; David D. Henry '41; Eric W. Johnson '39, proctor of Thayer Hall; Eugene D. Keith '42; Thomas Lacey, 2nd '42; W. Rhoads Murphy, 3rd '41, John Richardson '43; Edmond B. Spaeth, Jr. '42, chairman...