Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.

The important thing was that Burton had gone somewhere to meet a blackmailer with a gun in his pocket.

He thought of other possibilities, none of them satisfactory, and finally he began to think, to wonder if there was some way he could reach Burton.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

When he was told that no one had seen Burton since then, he thought of three other places that were possibilities.

And anyway Burton was not the kind of guy who would be likely to get in trouble even when he was drunk.

Burton ( 2008 ) argues that Lincoln's republicanism was taken up by the Freedmen as they were emancipated.

In 1965 Lerner collaborated again with Burton Lane on the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was adapted for film in 1970.

Burton Stephen " Burt " Lancaster ( November 2, 1913-October 20, 1994 ) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile ( which he called " The Grin ").

Chester Burton " Chet " Atkins ( June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 ) was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

The last English translation of the novel in the 20th century was by Burton Raffel, published in 1996.

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

Richard Burton starred in the first broadcast in 1954, and was joined by Elizabeth Taylor in a subsequent film.

His visit to say goodbye to BBC producer Philip Burton, a few days before he left for New York, was interrupted by a blackout.

The first practical electron microscope was constructed in 1938, at the University of Toronto, by Eli Franklin Burton and students Cecil Hall, James Hillier, and Albert Prebus ; and Siemens produced the first commercial transmission electron microscope ( TEM ) in 1939.

* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )

The performance was set on a bare stage, conceived to appear like a dress rehearsal, with Burton in a black v-neck sweater, and Gielgud himself tape-recorded the voice for the Ghost ( which appeared as a looming shadow ).

The Gielgud / Burton production was also recorded complete and released on LP by Columbia Records.

Richard Francis Burton was the first European at Lake Tanganyika.

The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 14, 1914.

Peel was born in Heswall Cottage Hospital in Heswall on the Wirral Peninsula, near Liverpool, and grew up in the nearby village of Burton.

Timothy Walter " Tim " Burton ( born August 25, 1958 ) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist.

Richard Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

From 1949 until their divorce in 1963, he was married to producer Sybil Williams, by whom he had two daughters, Katherine " Kate " Burton ( born 10 September 1957 ) and Jessica Burton ( born 1961 ).

In 1964, the couple adopted a daughter from Germany, Maria Burton ( born 1 August 1961 ).

Burton also adopted Taylor's daughter by the late producer Mike Todd, Elizabeth Frances " Liza " Todd Burton ( born 6 August 1957 ).

Pickens was born Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. in Kingsburg, California, the son of Sally Mosher ( née Turk ) and Louis Bert Lindley, Sr.

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr. ( born February 16, 1957 ), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an American actor, director, producer, and author.

Burton was born to American parents at the U. S. Army Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in West Germany.

James Burton, a rock and roll / Country music guitarist, was born in Dubberly in 1939.

Joe Jackson ( born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire ) is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001.

Tom Ford was born August 27, 1961 in Austin, Texas, to realtors Tom Ford and Shirley Burton.

He was born at Lindley, Leicestershire, Robert Burton was the son of Ralph Burton and the brother of William Burton the antiquary.

* October 19-Sir Richard Burton, author ( born 1821 )

* January 25-Robert Burton, scholar ( born 1577 )

* 1958 – Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter

* Burton Watson ( 1958 ) Ssu-ma Ch ' ien: Grand Historian of China.

* Burton Watson ( 1958 ) Ssu-ma Ch ' ien: Grand Historian of China.

Burton appeared on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Time Remembered ( 1958 ) and winning the award for playing King Arthur in the musical Camelot ( 1960 ), directed by Moss Hart and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

* 1958 ( 31st ) Knighty Knight Bugs-Warner Bros .-John W. Burton

Named all-Big Ten in 1958 and 1959, and All-America in 1959, Burton left Northwestern having broken school records for most points in a career ( 130 ), most points in a season ( 76 ), most touchdowns in a career ( 21 ).

Burton led Northwestern in all-purpose yards in 1957, 1958, and 1959.

A definitive series, with new designs, was issued in 1954 for Queen Elizabeth, and in 1958 a pair of commemoratives marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Great Lakes of Africa by Burton and Speke.

Burton served until retiring on October 13, 1958.

* Berry, Mary Frances, ( 1978 ) Stability, Security, and Confinuity: Mr. Justice Burton and Decision-Making in the Supreme Court ( 1945 – 1958 ) Westport, Conn .: Greenwood Press.

He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton / Schumacher Batman franchise.

* Michael Burton 1958 – 1962 ( later organist of the Church of St John the Baptist, Frome )

In 1958, it was made as a British film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Richardson: the screenplay was written by the play's author, John Osborne with Nigel Kneale.

* Burton Holmes ( 1870 – 1958 ), American traveller, photographer and filmmaker

He later received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Pikes Peak Bible Seminary in 1957, and a theology degree from Burton College and Seminary in Colorado in 1958.

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

The poems have often been translated, by Arthur Waley ( 1954 ), Gary Snyder ( 1958 ), and Burton Watson ( 1970 ), among others.

Miller wrote many television plays and is the author of the screenplays, " The Rains of Ranchiphur " ( 1955 ) with Richard Burton and Lana Turner, and " Kings Go Forth ," ( 1958 ) with Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood.