Word: berg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting Galsworthy: "So pure, so high-minded . . . that I wanted to shout for the Folies Berg...
...Patty Berg Captured her fifth Women's Titleholders Golf Tournament yesterday with a record breaking...
Four years ago Norah Berg, self-styled "The Beachcomber," of Ocean City, Wash. wrote to tell us about the lively little community of shore-dwellers whose members, she said, "live in shacks and spend their time reading, fighting and drinking home-brew," as well as engaging in heated debates about the material they read. In her letter, printed in this space, Mrs. Berg said that she would like to write a book about them, if she "could more aptly portray the lives of these people...
Recently Mrs. Berg wrote me again-and she had written the book. Following publication of her letter in TIME, representatives of several publishers encouraged her to write a book about Ocean City. So she tried it. After writing three drafts, she appealed to Charles Samuels, who co-authored His Eye Is on the Sparrow with Ethel Waters. He read the script, went out to spend six weeks with the Bergs, helped rewrite the book. Titled Lady on the Beach, it was published by Prentice-Hall in November, has just gone into its third printing...
...chip on her shoulder. Instead of greeting all rivals with, "Yep, I'm gonna beat you," she began encouraging the younger girls on the circuit and established a working friendship with the older ones. When George is not traveling the circuit with her, she often rooms with Patty Berg, who has been her chief adversary for years...