Word: burtness
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Landon and Uhr have found the problem of what to do a pretty tough one, since Harvard has lost to Yale in Burt L. Standish's "Merriwell" novels since time immemorial. In an effort to make everyone happy, when Uhr flies East next week he will drop in for a chat with President Conant, according to the newspaper, Film Daily...
...well son of a cattleman, Walker cheats on his wife (Joanne Dru) and relies on his foster brother, Ranch Foreman Burt Lancaster, to rescue him from such scrapes as getting a neighboring girl into trouble. Thinking Lancaster the culprit, the girl's vengeful brothers go gunning for him. Walker helps them on the sly so he can eliminate Lancaster as an obstacle to his schemes for embezzling the old man's cattle...
Died. Kenneth Burt Griffin, 43, Chicago radio voice (actor, announcer, master of ceremonies), familiar to serial fans as Vic Hardy of ABC's Jack Armstrong; of undetermined causes; in Chicago...
...Brooklyn Dodgers, who came within two games of winning the National League pennant last season, dismissed Manager Burt Shotton, longtime friend of the departed Branch Rickey. Brooklyn's new manager: pepperpot Charley Dressen, 52, onetime Brooklyn coach in the razzle-dazzle era of Larry MacPhail and Leo Durocher, manager last season of the Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League champions. Dressen, who got a one-year contract, said that his policy could be expressed very simply: "To win games for Brooklyn...
...scoring started early, and continued until the end, easing off briefly during the second period. Tech just didn't have the speed to stop the Crimson attack. Only fine goaltending by Burt Woodward kept the score below...