Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know my size has gotten me jobs." Among actors who might be on any producer's list: Orson Welles, an epic creator who is known to the television generation as the butt of Johnny Carson's fat jokes; William Conrad, TV's Nero Wolfe; Raymond Burr, old Ironside; and Burt Young, the Gibraltar of Rocky. Perhaps the most stereotyped of all is Victor Buono. Fat from childhood, Buono reached 400 Ibs. before a recent diet took him down to 350. He played Bette Davis' father in Hush, Hush'. . . Sweet Charlotte when...
...Fogg Museum also received some help from abroad this year in the form of a design for a new $5.9-million extension to be built on the site of Allston Burr Hall. British architect James Stirling unveiled plans for the adjunct in April, likening his creation to a car battery. "It's incredibly dense," he explained...
...effort to dispel rumors that Lowell was trying to impose the church proposal unilaterally. Allston Burr, Class of 1889, chairman of the Harvard War Memorial Fund Committee, wrote a letter to the editors of the Crimson, in which he disclosed that his committee had studied the question for five years before arriving at the church proposal. The committee had then sent letters to the next-of-kin of the Harvard dead, explaining the committee's proposal for a memorial church and asking for contributions. Burr wrote...
...Burr's letter dealt the decisive blow to the proposals for other forms of memorial. He stated that "all subscriptions to the Harvard War Memorial have been given for a church. To use the fund for any other form of memorial would be a breach of trust. Many subscribers, and some for large sums, are dead...
During the last two minutes, with Adelphi a man short for the rest of the game. Forbush put Harvard to within two. A goal by freshman J.J. Nullet closed the gap to one, and Bobby Burr, on an assist from Pedroni with less than 30 seconds remaining, knotted the score at 18. From there, again, it was Forbush, who gave Harvard the victory on a beautiful pass from co-captain Frank Prezioso with two ticks left on the clock...