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...Bert Haiues, on the other hand, said last night that he would save his 150's until the weather clears, but he plans to put them on open water as soon as possible...
Government documents, said the Etonian editors, are rank with verbiage, due to "a popular misconception that to use long words is a sign of an expensive education. . . . We prefer a homely remark such as 'You've got some cheek, Bert' to 'Herbert, you are suffering from an inverted inferiority complex...
...four Republican members (others: Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, California's Congressman Bert Gearhart) had hoped to ferret out some damaging facts about Franklin Roosevelt's prewar conduct. To date, they had failed, although they had helped to bring to light damaging evidence of Army and Navy confusion. Most of the material now going into the record, which had already reached 700,000 words, only spelled out verbose repetition...
...Bert Acosta, pioneer transatlantic flyer (1927), was hospitalized in Manhattan, with an abdominal abscess...
Crew coach Bert Haines said last night that a meeting of the rowing mentors last Saturday had recommended that the revival of the prewar Poughkeepsle classic be held in the Charles River Basin, but, in the absence of confirmation from Bingham, it was assumed that the revised schedule as reported in the New York Times yesterday was correct...