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...Deep Stuff and his best friend, persuaded to join by a recruiting sergeant who mentions easy eating, sleeping and band music, seem to have humorous possibilities. But Anybody's War is only mildly funny. The trouble is partly the interjection of an unnecessary lovestory, and partly that Bert Swor, who takes Moran's old part in the team, acts merely as a feeder to Mack. Best shot: X-ray of a stomach containing a pair of dice and a fishhook...
Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...
...Salina, Kan., Mrs. Bert Phelps prepared a Gore County chicken for cooking. Frugally, as well as to give Mr. Phelps a giblet he likes, she split the hen's gizzard, peeled out the musk. In the olive green debris were flecks of metallic yellow. A jeweler found them, gold, worth...
Britain's Amy. Scarcely noticed by British newsmen when she took off alone in her tiny Gipsy-Moth biplane from Croydon, Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson landed last week at Port Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this...
...with dignified persistence into the affairs of the Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty of one who must check each utterance by the most exacting dictates of his conscience. Her bert David Croly had performed the ad mirable function of providing a suitable journal for a promising decade. It is not surprising that The New Republic became almost the official organ of the White House during the Wilson Administration. With the War everything changed. Editor Croly naturally espoused the League...