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...Philharmonic began as a cooperative in which each member invested $25; first season's take was $15 apiece. The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language." In 1865 the orchestra raised some eyebrows by hiring a conductor, Karl Bergmann, at the whopping salary of $1,000 a year. When Edwin Booth declaimed with the Philharmonic (in Schumann's Manfred), the musicians gave him a silver vase; the actor countered by presenting Conductor Bergmann with an aluminum baton (then more costly than silver) from Tiffany...
...Bergmann Richards '09, lawyer, of Minneapolis, was elected vice-president of The Harvard Alumni Association, at a meeting of the Directors of the Alumni Association at the Harvard Club of Boston last night. Richards will fill a new vice-presidency of the Alumni Association, recently created by the Directors, increasing the number of vice-presidents from two to three. He will serve until the 1941 Commencement...
...previous marriage, and his secretary, Fraulein Helen Dukas, who since Frau Einstein's death last year has looked after his bank account, his clothes and other things which to him are equally trivial. In the morning he works at home with his assistant, Dr. Peter G. Bergmann, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. In the afternoons he goes to his office in Fine Hall. In the evenings he goes to concerts whenever possible, once in a long while to the cinema...
...much of a bogey, but not so the Czechs. A pair of them; won the women's doubles, a team of Czechs took the Corbillon Cup, and a single Czech, Bohumil Vana, eliminated Viktor Barna, the great Hungarian paddler, in the semi-finals and Defending Champion Richard Bergmann of Austria in the final of the men's singles. In the men's doubles, the Hungarian team of Barna & Bellak were set back by Sol Schiff & Jimmy McClure of the U. S. An Austrian, Trudi Pritzi, won the women's singles. But Hungary regained the Swaythling...
Inasmuch as I have never yet seen a published photograph of a prizefighter (successful or otherwise) with a black eye, I can't help wondering how the neat shiner donated to Editor Anderson of the Drake University Times-Delphic by Ellis Bergmann and featured in TIME of March 23 compares with the work of a professional "closer of eyes," say the shiner Tunney hung on Dempsey in Philadelphia...