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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outing. In Portland, Ore., Motorman E. E. Burton took a critical look at his hot, perspiring streetcar passengers, pulled to a stop, bought Eskimo pies for the whole crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Prescription. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Bertha Burton Adams assured the superior court that she felt her life of "drudgery and trouble" would take a turn for the better if she were allowed to change her name to Gentle Dove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rugged & Extensive | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...BURTON New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1948 | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...season the subject of running was rarely mentioned in the Patton home. Mel never read the sport pages: "I might begin believing those things they write." When the afternoon paper was delivered to their neat, $35-a-month apartment on Beverly Hills' Burton Way, his wife tore out the sport section and put it away. As sensitive to excitement as a punch-drunk fighter is to bells, Patton didn't want any gongs ringing inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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