Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University first announced its intention to build a new Varsity Club on May 3, with the funds coming from the will of the late Allston Burr '89, who in 1912 gave the money for the present Varsity Club near the Union...
...bibliophile, says his scriptless show is planned by "four guys sitting around a table." The other three, all under 35, are Writer Charlie Andrews, an ex-hobo; Producer Ted Mills, an expatriate New Yorker; and Director Bill Hobin, an ex-drummer. The Garroway show's top council, with Burr Tillstrom (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) and Documentary Expert Ben Park, make up the brain trust of the close-knit, argumentative group that has developed the Chicago school. Explains NBC's Chicago Station Manager Jules Herbuveaux: "New York thinks there's nothing wrong with TV that the stage...
...edited volumes of Emily's verse, with many omissions and with arbitrary changes in diction and punctuation designed to make her revolutionary prosody and bold use of words more acceptable to conventional taste. Biographers wanted to know why good-looking Emily ("My hair is bold, like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves") immured herself in her father's sprawling brick mansion for more than twelve years. They also wondered to whom she had addressed her love poems. But the Dickinsons had frustrated the biographers too, by wholesale deletions...
...letters stressed two main points: the fact that Allston Burr's bequest carried with it a "moral obligation" to erect a new Club, and the urgent immediate need for the new building...
...A.V.C. in its letter to the Corporation, termed the use of part of Burr's $1,500,000 bequest to build a new Varsity Club an "almost cynical disregard for rational allocation of resources in the University...