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...when Connecticut's ex-Governor Wilbur L. Cross intimated at a public meeting that there was more Keller than Sumner in the book, Keller leaped to his feet to denounce the idea. But last week the William Graham Sumner Club (old Sumner and Keller pupils) decided that bluff Bert Keller's hero worship had gone too far. Celebrating his retirement with a dinner in New Haven (to which he refused to wear dinner clothes), they dragged him out of his master's shadow, pronounced him as great a man as Sumner himself...
Lily Rons, Gertrude Lawrence, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Bert Lytell, Edmund Gwenn, Lenore Lonergan all climbed into brocades to whoop it up for United China Relief at the opening of Manhattan's Burma Road Mart...
...There was some split second tunesmithing. In Hollywood, a few hours after the news from Pearl Harbor, Composer Lew Pollack and Lyricist Ned Washington produced a number which Comedian Bert Wheeler sang that night at Ciro's: Oh, we didn't want to do it, but they're asking for it now. So we'll knock the Japs right into the laps of the Nazis. . . . They'll hear the beat of a million feet of people who'd rather fight than eat, And here we come, here we come. I'd hate...
Manila communicates with California directly by R.C.A. and A.T. & T. radiotelephone (a point-to-point system employing short waves outside the broadcast band). On deck in Manila for CBS were Tom Worthin and Ford Wilkins, for NBC local radioman Bert Silen, for Mutual Royal Arch Gunnison of North America Newspaper Alliance. Burly Bert Silen had assured NBC in Manhattan that he could "broadcast any time, even during actual bombing...
...think about. Nothing like it is likely to happen again. Next day R.C.A. relaying of broadcasts from Marrila ceased, not to be resumed for two days and then only under a censorship that required broadcasters to submit their script well in advance of air time. Excerpts of what Bert Silen and his relief announcer Don Bell put on the radio telephone in the shiny moonlight during the first raid...