Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Harold Hitz Burton...
Supreme Court justice from 1945 to 1958; of Parkinson's disease; in Washington. A nonswearing, one-martini Unitarian, Burton was the middle-roading conciliator between the hotly divided Frankfurter and Black camps; he believed in interpreting, not making, the law, though he became an ardent civil rights advocate, winning headlines in 1950 when he wrote the opinion outlawing Jim Crow dining cars (the Negro table behind the curtain) on Southern railroads, one of the modern court's first major anti-segregation decisions...
Green-Eyed Gypsy. Burton handles his narrative with considerable storytelling skill. The revelation it turns on is that, despite the fateful presence of Mrs. Tabor T.B., a birth is occurring in his home rather than the death he suspects. Along the way he flashes a prose that is occasionally quite memorable, as when he explains why any boy in the valley would want to grow up to be a miner: "There was, you understand, the ambition for the walk of the miners in corduroy trousers, with yorks under the knees to stop the loose coal running down into your boots...
...Richard Burton has long insisted that he would rather be a writer than an actor. Last summer, Condé Nast's Glamour magazine sent him a timid feeler asking if he might like to write a story for the Christmas issue. The idea appealed to Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very...
Harbinger of Death. Burton's tale is about a Christmas in his village in Wales. It is written in the first person and is so faithfully autobiographical that he does not even bother to change his own name. On this Christmas Eve, old Mad Dan, "the local agnostic," has deliberately kept his little nephew Richard out with a group of miners until the hour is so late that the boy grows suspicious...