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...Picayune. The reporters rested momentarily. Up popped the New York Herald Tribune's able Washington bureau chief, Bert Andrews, with the obvious question: "Does all that add up to a fourth-term declaration?" When the laughter died down the President replied (authorizing only this much of his remarks for direct quotation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: PLATFORM FOR 1944 | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...Died. Bert Elias Underwood, 81, newsphoto pioneer, Underwood & Underwood's cofounder; in Tucson, Ariz. Onetime Kansas door-to-door salesman of stereoscopic views, by 1890 he and his brother had offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. To improve their wares, Bert learned photography, in 1897 sent his syndicate off to a good start by covering the Greco-Turkish War for Harper's Weekly and the Illustrated London News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Leading roles are going to Pfc Seymour Aronoff, Pfc Phillip Brown, Pfc Arnold Caplan, Pfc Sol Chafkin, Cpl. Charles Freitag, and Pfc Bert Smith. Cpl Michael Fedorchak is art director, Cpl Coffin is musical director, and Cpl Ed. L. Kandib is production secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTP TO GIVE MUSICAL PLAY | 12/21/1943 | See Source »

Lawrence H. Hyde, Jr. '46, of Belmont and Eliot House, the former vice-president of PBH, was elected president at the last cabinet meeting, replacing Peter Kranz, who resigned yesterday. The new vice-president is Bert Knight '46, of Youngstown, Ohio and Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH WILL CONDUCT PARTY FOR NEEDY | 12/17/1943 | See Source »

...waiter asks "What are you going to eat today?" Burns is likely to reply "What am I going to eat today?" The character of George Burn's offstage conversation is better suggested by the fact that his best friends include Jack Benny, Harpo Marx, Lou Holtz and Bert Lahr. Though he travels in such fast company; Straight Man Burns has no trouble keeping ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Straight Man | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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