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Dean Monroe H. Freedman '52, of Hofstra Law School told a Burr Hall audience of 70 that defense lawyers are compelled to "eliminate candor" in their presentation to the court if they wish to preserve both confidentiality and complete knowledge of their client's case...
This Series will no doubt be regarded someday as one of the greatest sporting spectacles since the Burr-Hamilton duel. People will talk about those upstart Bostonians, who handled the mighty Redlegs with the ease of Claudell Washington catching a fly ball...
...plans for the commuter center--the rough equivalent of Dudley House--had grown firm enough for Charles P. Whitlock, present dean of Harvard College and then Dudley's Allston Burr Senior Tutor, to discuss publicly the size of the proposed building. That autumn The Crimson even carried a sketch of tentative plans for the five-story building, which was to be erected shortly after what is now the new part of Quincy House. The Crimson story concluded by stating that the commuter center would "definitely" be built on the Mt. Auburn-Plympton St. corner...
What if Aaron Burr had been a bad shot? What if Lincoln had not attended Our American Cousin? Such questions, history's most tantalizing and ironic, are also its most academic and trivial−except in some extraordinary instances. One such instance is now coming to light. The FBI is investigating the previously unrevealed fact that a few days before President Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald dropped in at the bureau's Dallas office to deliver a threatening note. Not only did the Dallas FBI fail to put Oswald under surveillance...
...Fascist. To judge by the uniforms worn at Claudius' court, the usurping king is a tin-pot fascist. Robert Burr plays the role like Dean Martin presiding at a "roast"; Andrea Marcovicci plays Ophelia like a stewardess in search of an Upper East Side singles bar; and if Ruby Dee's Gertrude is capable of loving either Claudius or Hamlet, it will certainly be news to them. Only Larry Gates, doubling as Polonius and the First Gravedigger, emerges from this fiasco with a modicum of merit...