Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vital Ingredient. In a busy lifetime, Burton Rascoe, Manhattan critic and literary Pooh-Bah, had been called a lot of other things, but never an economist. In his latest book of reminiscences, We Were Interrupted (Doubleday; $4), he pays his respects to the craft. His conclusion: "Economics is, by and large, pure mythology. . . . Any economic plan is workable just so long, and only so long, as it is sustained by faith...
Wrestling his first bout of the year, Bob Claflin walked away with the 175-pound class with a 4 to 2 decision over Ernest Koehler, as 191-pound captain Pete Fuller followed up with a 6 to 2 decision over Jim Burton...
...House and Milwaukee, Wis. as Managing Editor; Paul Sack '48, of Winthrop House and Yonkers, N. Y., as Business Manager; Joel Raphaelson '49, of Dunster House and Pleasant Valley, Pa., as Editorial Chairman; George G. Daniels '48, of 74 Phillips Street and Short Hills, N. J., as Executive Editor; Burton S. Glinn '46, of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, as Photographic Chairman; and Thomas C. Simons '50, of Eliot House and Oakland, Cal., as Advertising Manager...
...Leverett House Junior Common Room, more than thirty members of the new group chose an executive board of five from a slate of seven nominees. In addition to Alden, those elected were: as Secretary-Treasurer, Warren Vander Maas '49; as members-at-large, Rudolf A. M. Roemer '49, Burton Benedict '45, and Charles M. Zane...
Mostly Mud. It was not much of a capital. Karachi was a little trading village until the British seized it in 1843. Shortly thereafter, Scholar-Adventurer Richard Burton described it in Scinde or the Unhappy Village as a "mass of low mud hovels and tall mud houses with flat mud roofs, windowless mud walls, and numerous mud ventilators, surrounded by a tumbledown parapet of mud, built upon a platform of mud-covered rock...