Frank Burgess
Franklin D. "Frank" Burgess (March 9, 1935 – March 26, 2010) was an American standout college basketball player and, later, a United States federal judge.
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Famous quotes containing the words frank and/or burgess:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)