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...Send Bert my photograph and book, my billfold and my ring...
Dogface Soldier was written in 1942 by two Long Beach, N.Y. soldiers, both strangers to Tin Pan Alley : Corporal Bert Gold, 27, onetime Manhattan movie-theater manager, now at Dale Mabry Field, Fla., and Lieut. Ken Hart, an ex-New York Times correspondent with the A.A.F. in Panama. Composer Gold confesses: "I banged out the theme with one finger and we called in a professional to do the arrangement. He was the man with the education and the man who got the $5." Technically, he characterizes his work as "a beat-up, old-fashioned style, spontaneous-sounding ballad...
...Voluntary rowing on the machines is continuing at Weld Boat Club during exam period," reports coach Bert Haines, "and a formal meeting of all crewmen will be called immediately after the coming vacation. Practice will shift into the tanks at Newell Boat House at that point and will continue until the ice is out of the Charles...
...Private Bert Brennke, of Waterloo, Iowa stepped gingerly along a snow-covered road on the Belgian front, operating a mine detector. He would not let himself be distracted by an odd sound, different from the hum produced in his earphones by the presence of a mine...
...Robert Crabb, who with his wife and a boy and girl born during their internment were among 3,700 freed at Santo Tomas. He wrote: "Hundreds of us wept unashamed when the Stars & Stripes was run up. . . ." ¶ NBC Correspondent Bert Silen, who began his first broadcast with an inevitable wisecrack: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted over three years and a month...