Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Francis Burton Harrison, 83, onetime (1903-05, 1907-13) U.S. Representative from New York, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines, who strongly advocated a Philippine republic, was the first American to become a naturalized Filipino (1936), became known as the "grandfather" of Philippine independence; of a heart ailment; in Flemington...
...roulades: a trio practicing orchid-eating, a wild snatch of Swan Lake, a bit of supper ritual, a quite mad hunting scene. As the flighty duchess, Helen Hayes -if not wholly French-is very often wholly delightful, alternating an actress' skill with a vaudevillian's liveliness. Richard Burton plays a prince who is more bored than bereaved with a fine sullen dash; and his verbal aria on how sad it is to be rich is far more piquant than anything of Saroyan's on how jolly it is to be poor. Susan Strasberg makes a very pretty...
Died. Gerald B. (for Burton) Winrod, 57, big, bellicose self-styled "Reverend," race-baiting bigot, editor of the Defender, the monthly propaganda whip of his pseudo-religious organization, "The Defenders of the Christian Faith;" of pneumonia; in Wichita, Kans. A deep-voiced radiorator who flourished in the Father Coughlin-Huey Long era, Winrod thundered his rabid invective from his Wichita headquarters, clipped his mustache like Hitler's, lumped Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower as members of the "international Jewish banking fraternity" trying "to sovietize...
...speaking on "The Transmission of American Culture" in the third annual Burton Lecture on Elementary Education...
...Game Catch. In Littlerock, Calif., Abraham Burton, informed by reporters that his 32-year-old son Clifford had been arrested on bigamy charges (nine wives, ten children), thoughtfully observed that the boy's hobbies had always been hunting and fishing...