Word: berg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dispatch's ace, John T. Rogers, who returned the kidnaped Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength of his success in the Kelley case, was given an inside track on the kidnap case of Alexander Berg, well-to-do fur dealer. Four days, six hours after the furrier's abduction newsmen were handed copies of the following statement by the Berg lawyer, Morris G. Levinson...
...artistic prestige is to be had in its plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time this week) and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.* Famed Contralto Margaret Matzenauer will be one of this year's singers. Conductors will be Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Alberto Bimboni, high-priced Leopold Stokowski...
...première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...
...Tony Canzoneri: a 15-round fight, defending his world's lightweight championship, against Judah Bergman (Jack ["Kid"] Berg) ; in Manhattan...
Something has happened to North Atlantic icebergs this season. Up to last week only two small "growlers" had floated into the shipping lanes. The U. S. Coast Guard was puzzled. Every spring since the Titanic collided with a berg (April 1912). Coast Guard cutters have roved the northern sea in behalf of international shipping. Two of the cutters, the Mojave and the Pontchartrain, last week rode idly in Boston Harbor. Another, the General Greene, was still out searching. This abnormal situation of course pleases navigators. Last year the Coast Guard apprised them of 440 dangerous bergs. For this year some...