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Where there is an exhibitionist there must also be a voyeur; in Hitchcock's world they make a perfect sadomasochistic pair. In Rear Window it is a salesman-killer (Raymond Burr) and a photographer with a broken leg (Stewart) who ives across the courtyard. This roving lensman may be immobile for the moment, but he knows how to extract meaning from pictures-and there is something wrong with this one. He turns amateur detective and puts his "leg man" (Kelly) at risk digging holes in a mysterious garden, clambering into second-story windows, even confronting Mr. Bad. Early...
...hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...
...afraid to say how good he is, because he may be the best offensive lineman they have ever seen. "In Steinkuhler, Fryar and Rozier," says Dallas Cowboy personnel man Gil Brandt, "Nebraska might have three players drafted in the first ten." That such a player could come out of Burr (pop. 101 and getting smaller-"I don't look for it to last much longer," Steinkuhler sighs) is more than farfetched. When the All-America teams are announced, Burr will become the smallest town to have produced an All-America. It is a place without a policeman...
...extension of the Fogg Museum. Must they? Bury Hall, the previous occupant on that land, was innocuous enough. At least it did not hinder one's enjoyment of Gund Hall or William James Hall. Did I say enjoyment? Sorry, I meant toleration Even better was the land alter Burr had been demolished, when no building sat there...
...Ambulatory care is the wave of the future," Francis H. Burr '35, chairman of the board of one of them, Massachusetts General Hospital, said yesterday...