Word: burtons
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This week's cover story on military manpower emerged from just such a process. Says Associate Editor Burton Pines, the Nation section's expert on military affairs and principal author of the story: "It was a natural. The issue was very important, potentially explosive, but not susceptible of a quick fix. It was clear it would lend itself to a symposium treatment." TIME assembled five experts on military manpower problems, who joined 19 TIME staffers for a 5½-hour seminar in the Time-Life Building in New York City. The results not only inevitably helped shape this...
...Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean of Radcliffe, argued that the forum's closing indicated that the College's priorities lie with the undergraduates and not "generically with the women's movement...
...movies for which the grizzled director-actor was being honored, including such epics as The African Queen and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Huston, 73, listened to the compliments by stars with whom he had worked during a 39-year career, including Lauren Bacall, Jose Ferrer and Richard Burton. Then, hardly pausing for rest, he flew off to Hungary to work on his 36th movie, Escape to Victory...
...immediate and stunning financial pain. Yet for everyone, from furloughed vice presidents to laid-off warehouse clerks, the lack of a job in a culture that virtually assigns a person his identity by the work he does can be an insidious, soul-destroying experience. Says an unemployed mechanic, Jim Burton of Baltimore: "You lose a week's pay and you die a little...
Animal Farm by H. Lewis Allways? Nineteen Eighty-Four by Kenneth Miles or P.S. Burton? These were some of the pseudonyms that the young English writer Eric Blair considered when he published his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, in 1933. He settled, of course, on George Orwell. But far more was involved than a name change, argue Stansky and Abrahams (authors of the 1972 biographical study The Unknown Orwell). Blair was feeling his way as a minor novelist, self-absorbed and "unremittingly nonpolitical." By the time Eric fully became George, he was passionately political in every...