Word: burton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School Forum Scheduled for to right at Langdell Court has been cancelled because of the illness of W. Burton Leach '21, professor of Law. Leach, a Brigadier-General in the U.S., Army Reserve and special counsel to the air force on the B-36 investigations, was to have spoken on "The Armed Services investigation...
...antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from...
Fournier has also promised to pay Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, in full on a similar charge at 8:30 a.m. this morning. The third claim hanging against Fournier was wiped out today when Burton K. Williams 3L was paid $16.66 on his demand that Fournier buy back a couch he had sold him as promised...
...Boat Club crew, made up entirely of former Harvard varsity and jayvee to MIT and the College varsity, although the boat has only been together for a week. Lane Burton, stroke, was on its '46 crew; Frank Strong, at six, captained the varsity in '43. Don Felt, number four man, rowed on the crew in '48 and '49; Dick Emmet, number three, held a position on the varsity in '47 and '48. The balance of the crew, Bob Taggart at five, Nat Ober at seven, and bowman Hargo Hansen, were jayvees in '48 or '49. (Hansen in better known...
Within a few years, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" was fabulously famous. Lydia's iron smile had been plastered on barns and billboards across the U.S., and her name was in history with Betsy Ross, Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony. Her story, told in Jean Burton's spry biography, makes the career of a Horatio Alger hero sound like a chronicle of indifferent success...