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When New York City announced plans to display the long-secret court records of Aaron Burr's 1836 divorce case, in which the 80-year-old ex-Vice President was accused of adultery, at least one part-time historian was unexcited. "It's all in my book," points out Gore Vidal, who pieced the story together accurately for his historical novel Burr, without aid of court records. "I have never seen them. I've just gone on other people's word." Of Burr's long-lived virility, Vidal added: "Burr was a small, trim little...
...registration meeting for spring soccer instruction will be held today at 7:15 p.m. in Burr A. Soccer coaches George Ford and Seamus Malin will be teaching classes aimed at people who have played little or no soccer but would like to learn...
Most Harvard administrators interviewed last week said women in the Harvard Houses altered the atmosphere of House life more than any other factor. Whitla said women living in the Houses "got rid of the hated parietal rules, which had been a burr under the saddle of so many people. And it improved the tone of the House and dining hall." Finley agrees: "The introduction of girls was a very monumental step in an intellectual direction. Conversation is politer because girls are not so bullish...
...September 1975. I confidently expect every level of school in Boston to be involved in a court-ordered desegregation plan," NAACP leader Tom Atkins told eight students in Burr Hall...
...Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...