Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Construction will begin shortly on a new Varsity Club building, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. The proposed clubhouse, made possible by a gift from the late Allston Burr '82, will be located on the new vacant lot in front of Lowell House between the Phoenix and Fly Clubs...
...sculpture, warmth is less easily achieved. The Greeks did it consistently, but few moderns care to try. Among the few is Burr Miller, whose marble Genetrix stood out at the Whitney like a breathing woman in a waxworks. Robert Cronbach's bas-relief Woman Drinking was contrastingly weightless; by hollowing out his fat, unhappy figure he had transformed her into an alcoholic cloud...
What defeats the movie is a poverty of invention along the way and a curious indecision as to whether to play for farce or melodrama. For a while, as a Los Angeles lady detective trying to woo secrets out of a villain (Raymond Burr), Actress Trevor deliberately burlesques a movie vamp. After that, whatever travesty the picture makes of its own plot seems purely unintentional...
...Alan Burr Overstreet, visiting lecturer at Harvard University, has been given a post as associate professor of Government at Smith College, Benjamin F. Wright, the College's President, announced recently...
Died. Sir Harry Lauder, 79, stubby, bandy-legged Scottish comic whose pawky burr and lilting ditties (Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race...