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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allston Burr '89, recognized as one of Harvard's most devoted alumni, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at his home in Newton. He was 83 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allston Burr, Noted Alumnus And Radcliffe Trustee, Dies | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

Rabbit & Witch. U.S. television screens also swarm with puppets, and U.S. moppets also react enthusiastically. Probably the most popular U.S. marionette is NBC's Howdy Doody,* a drawling, cow-country character who cavorts through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stars on Strings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Paul W. Knaplund of Kirkland House and Madison, Wis.: Varsity Crew Captain; Kirkland House Committee; Francis H. Burr Scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '49 Class Committee Candidates | 1/12/1949 | See Source »

Orson's fascination with the echoes of his own voice on the sound track (a hangover from Citizen Kane) sometimes makes his Macbeth resemble an unmannerly uproar in a coal mine. The on-again-off-again use of a Scotch burr by some of the actors, including the star, does not help; but the production's main fault is that Welles and his leading lady (Jeanette Nolan) play their roles, for most of 95 minutes, at the top of their lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...Middletown, Conn., Miss Nellie Wolan, 34, offered her six-room house for "an affectionate husband" between 35 and 50 years old ("I'm very affectionate myself," she explained). A Lexington, Ky. woman declared she would pay $10,000 for a man. And the Rev. E. L. Burr of Temperance, Mich, announced that he was looking for a husband for his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Passion & Pork Chops | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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