Word: bert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a fourth season of sagging attendance and mounting deficits in both leagues, National League club owners deputized thick-set League Commissioner Bert Bell to deal secretly with Manhattan Attorney J. Arthur Friedlund, the chosen negotiator of the All-America Conference. In two days & nights of almost continuous bargaining in Philadelphia's Racquet Club, the two men reached agreement...
...television fame of a comic who specializes in gag-stealing and belligerent self-interest, and stops at nothing to keep an audience laughing. The movie includes an endless parade of vaudeville turns with Berle running through his television repertory, throwing in some slapdash imitations of Ted Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious to please...
...decree by Governor Dever freed Bert C. MacLeech 3G yesterday from a fugitive from justice charge on which he has been in jail since last May. The charge had specified that he was wanted in Tacoma, Washington for perjury alledgedly committed when he sought a confirmatory divorce there...
...nurses, however, decided it would be better to surprise their friend. They barged across the courtyard, leaving a line of stiff necks behind them. They knocked at Bert's door...
...thought it was a mirage," said Anthony Oettinger '51, Bert's roommate. who opened the door. Immediately he closed it again. The girls walked in. So did a dozen Lowell House spectators. No drinks were served...