Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carleton Burr starred from his position as defense man, and the first line of Bill Apthrop, Henry Tilgham and Bill LaCroix kept the puck in enemy territory. Dick Loomis, John Page, Bill Apthrop, and Bill LaCroix scored for the Crimson...
Substituting for Burr and Aldrich will be Dick Loomis and Bill Pinney. The third line, which will probably see plenty of service, is John Abbot, Tom White, and Paul LaMothe...
...main thing is that Philip Merivale, Ina Claire and Harry Sherman are in the rarest form you could imagine. Unfortunately, Anne Burr, the Youth Congress champion, is far over-drawn, partly due to Mr. Behrman and in spots to Miss Burr's melodrama. The end of the last act is an anti-climax to an anti-climax, but when they chop that off, "The Talley Method" should settle in a comfortable theatre and stay for a good while...
...Weary." On the last day of C. I. O.'s convention John Lewis nominated his successor: 54-year-old Philip Murray, who began his career at the age of ten working in a Scottish coal mine, still has a miner's shoulders and a Scotsman's burr. Sidney Hillman seconded Murray's nomination, for Murray's election was the brightest hope for harmony in C. I. 0. When Murray won, Lewis shook his hand far more cordially than he had shaken Hillman's, gave him an ivory gavel, "symbol" of C. I. 0. leadership...
Last week Philosopher Forbes had even more reason than usual to radiate happiness. In his green, musty, picture-plastered office on Manhattan's lower Fifth Avenue, he was busy autographing first editions of his eleventh book, Little Bits About Big Men. In a heavy Scotch burr he admitted that real credit for its appearance was due to his 73-year-old housekeeper, Mary Cordner, who for years had deplored the fact that all of his five sons but the last (12-year-old Wallace) had had books dedicated to them. B. C. could not withstand such an argument indefinitely...