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...soon becomes clear that it is not going to be easy. Her sloppy, vicious cab-driving mother (Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood) turns up to excoriate her. A prison guard (Bob Burrus) has quit his job and accompanied Arlene to her Louisville flat, with the lecherous expectation of shacking up with her. He is an odd mixture of paternal solicitude and cruel menace. Her ex-lover and pimp (Leo Burmester) shows up. A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York...
Discus--1. Johnson (H) 109-6; 2. Blatt (H) 92-3; 3. Burrus...
Johnson will get help from senior co-captain Lisa Burrus and Lisa Westlake in the discus and from Wendy Blatt and Betsy Adams in the shotput...
...from country to country, and, if need be, can be quickly disposed of. Wall Street Broker Alfred Caspary's 50,000 stamps were sold beginning in 1955 for $2,900,000, and represented a quarter of the value of his estate. The collection of Swiss Tobacco Magnate Maurice Burrus, from which the rare 2? Hawaiian came, will probably realize $8,000,000 when it is all disposed of. Burrus paid $15,000 for the Hawaiian in 1921; last week's sale thus represented a 275% increase in value...
...million blunder by Dallas' big Burrus Mills, which undertook to store 37 million bu. of surplus wheat in special tents three years ago because conventional grain-elevator space was unavailable. Floods came, starlings pecked holes in the thin canvas, rats and insects invaded the tents. When time came to release the wheat, much of it was fit only for animal feed. The Agriculture Department is withholding $4,700,000 in storage fees and wants another $8,000,000 in damages. Sadly, Burrus admits it owes the U.S. $10.7 million, questions only $2,000,000 of the Government...