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...there are still a few bugs left from the Bennett era and it's doubtful they will ever be worked out. At least one member of the Harvard Corporation (Senior Fellow Francis H. Burr '35) is a director on one of the new firms. In the financial world especially, it is difficult to find something that does not involve Burr or other members of Harvard's Governing Boards...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: Financial Lineup Is Complete | 1/17/1975 | See Source »

...level four-member committee--made up of Bok, Putnam, Francis H. Burr '35, senior fellow of the Corporation, and F. Stanton Deland '36, president of the board of Overseers--will choose Nickerson's successor, probably by late spring...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The Torch Is Passing Again | 1/17/1975 | See Source »

...clock most mornings and shuttles between there, the Hypertension Center and his laboratory until hunger, exhaustion or Jean Sealey-a biochemist and his bride of four months-forces him to stop. "We haven't even had a honeymoon yet," complains Jean in a soft burr that attests to her origins in Glasgow, Scotland. "The day after we were married we went off to a hypertension meeting in Milan." But Laragh, who has two sons by a previous marriage that ended in divorce, does find time to relax. His golf game is good enough (in the low 80s) to allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONQUERING THE QUIET KILLER | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

MERT AND PHIL. Flawed in craft but spunky in spirit, Anne Burr's unflinching drama dared playgoers to face the corruption of the flesh and the death of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Year's Best | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...architectural world in general. Most atelier firms--even in Richardson's day--would fall apart after the director died, but Richardson's survived, first as Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge (Winthrop and Kirkland Houses) later as Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott (who designed the Fogg, Old Quincy, Old Leverett, Burr) and now as Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott (New Quincy, Leverett Towers, Mather). In Richardson's case, a dictatorship bred something of a cooperative. In Wright's and others, it bred collapse...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Whispering Bulk of Sever Hall | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

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