Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven men for whom this night held no dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...happened because the Army had placed in charge of the prison a pompous, unimaginative, and thoroughly likable officer who wasn't up to his job. Colonel Burton C. Andrus loved that job. Every morning his plump little figure, looking like an inflated pouter pigeon, moved majestically into the court, impeccably garbed in his uniform and highly shellacked helmet. His bow to the judges as they entered was one of the sights of Nürnberg. He loved to pen little notes: "The American Colonel invites the distinguished French prosecutor and his staff to accompany him to a baseball game...
...incautious flashes hanging all eleven Nazis, but quickly killed the flashes. The chosen eight newsmen who were in at the deaths knew about Göring - but the Allied Control Commission kept them incommunicado. It was three and a half hours after the final hanging before puffing Colonel Burton C. Andrus, prison commandant, shamefacedly told reporters outside - and the world - that Göring had cheated the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). It had been a memorable, unhappy night for everybody - including those who lived through...
...rehearsal, the operetta opened in the office of Button, Burton, Bitten and Muchinfuss, where Philmore Updyke Muchinfuss ("known in the trade as old P.U.") was holding a staff conference. The advertising agency needed a sponsor...
...Including Supreme Court Justice Burton, Washington Letter-Writer Kiplinger, Massachusetts' Senator Saltonstall, Federal Union's earnest Clarence Streit...