Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking for one. He is 55, says the National Association of Investment Companies, earns $6,542 a year, has mutual-fund holdings of $4,171, which he bought for retirement and protection against inflations. "The kind of people who buy mutual funds,'' says Edward B. Burr, executive vice president of One William Street, "intend to keep their shares ten, 20 years, or for life...
Perry Mason (Sat. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). Erie Stanley Gardner's famed lawyer-sleuth (Raymond Burr) is constantly embroiled in the best-plotted intricacies of TV's mystery shelf. His worst enemy is no crook but District Attorney Hamilton Berger (William Talman), whose batting average against Mason's brilliant courtroom tactics is .000. His closest pals are a private detective (William Hopper) and an even more private secretary (Barbara Hale), whom Mason keeps late at the office and takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even...
...youth looked like the top man in his trade. With his countryman Merv Lincoln tagging along behind him, Herb loped over the grassy turf track with the stride of an astonished ostrich. He stuck to the early pacemakers with ease. When Texas' Drew Dunlap and Maryland's Burr Grim pulled him through a 2:00.5 first half, Herb knew he was running a hot mile. In the third quarter, his pacemakers began to burn out, and Herb went into business for himself. He opened a steadily widening lead, finished 20 yds. in front of Lincoln, who was clocked...
Albert A. Mavrinac, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in John Winthrop House, viewed the effect of the new program on the Houses as "marginal." Winthrop House has not yet undertaken any definite plans for the institution of non-Honors tutorial for Seniors...
Producer Eugene Burr directs the screening of the few actors who take principal roles; some have fled auditions in tears after a ruthless grilling by lawyers testing their ad-libbing ability. The jurors are picked from studio visitors, must come back three to seven days running until the trial is finished. As a concession to TV viewers' impatience, they reach their verdict by majority vote...