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...Killer' will convert Harvard's tension into paranoia," Walter T. Burr '84, the game's on-campus organizer, said yesterday. Burr and his roommates Michael G. Ereli '84 and Richard D. Hegdal '84 began publicizing the game Thursday, distributing fliers in the Freshman Union and in freshman dorms...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Mccarthy and Leslie J. Smith, S | Title: 70 Students to Play Assassin As 'Killer' Begins at Harvard | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

...registration fees have just about offset the cost of the guns and advertising, Burr said, adding that the three plan to use any profits to throw a party...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Mccarthy and Leslie J. Smith, S | Title: 70 Students to Play Assassin As 'Killer' Begins at Harvard | 2/21/1981 | See Source »

Knowing that S.I. Hayakawa has a reputation for snoozing through committee hearings, would-be Senators are lining up for his job. Maureen Reagan, Governor Jerry Brown, and Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. have all been mentioned as candidates. Last week Gore Vidal, 55, author (Burr, The Best Man) and perennial talk-show guest, tossed his hat into the ring because, he says, "I'm terrified at the caliber of people in politics." By way of example, Vidal cites President Reagan's Inaugural Address: "It had all the resonance of a Brim coffee commercial." Besides a certain verbal flair, Vidal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 9, 1981 | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Ronald E. Burr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...walked down the hall to the operator, and fortunately the elevator wasn't at that floor. And while I was waiting, I heard this thumping down the hall and this Scotch burr very profanely saying (in a Reagan Scotch burr), 'Wait up, ya big so and so.' " And what did MacArthur say? Something about sports, of course. And what did MacArthur ask? "Do you think you could tell me about a football game and make me see it?" And could Ronald Reagan do that then and there? On the folk tale goes, fresh as a daisy, full of old hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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