Word: berge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibilities of opera in Manhattan's Radio City. Latest talk has been that the Metropolitan has abandoned all idea of becoming a subsidiary of the Rockefeller venture, that the Philadelphia Grand Opera would be invited in on the strength of the enterprise shown in its presentations of Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Richard Strauss's Elektra...
...Berg has been returned safely to his home. This was brought about through information furnished by John T. Rogers of the Post-Dispatch and the aid of the police. No ransom has been paid...
Fourteenth kidnaping in St. Louis in two years, the abduction of Furrier Berg was one of the most brazen. It occurred on busy Lindell Boulevard in heavy traffic while Mr. Berg's Negro chauffeur was driving him home from the office. As the car slowly crossed Euclid Avenue, just around the corner from the Park Plaza, two men jumped aboard, displayed revolvers, blindfolded Mr. Berg with taped goggles and forced the chauffeur to continue driving to the outskirts of the city. There they put the chauffeur out, and took their victim to a flat. Soon the first of a series...
...that time the Press was on the job. A "pressroom" was prepared on the mezzanine of the Park Plaza. For the Star, Gang-Reporter Theodore Link, instead of Brundidge, had the bulk of the work. But Rogers of the Post-Dispatch was immediately taken into the confidence of Mrs. Berg and her lawyer. He alone of the newshawks was shown the Berg notes, including this astonishing...
...like the Kelley story, as a P-D scoop. The reason: Reporter Rogers found Dr. Kelley with such dispatch and apparent ease that a strong suspicion was voiced by opposition papers that he had withheld important information from the police, who never caught the kidnapers. In the Berg case it was understood Reporter Rogers' editors instructed him "not to get mixed up in it." In the Post-Dispatch's report of Rogers' visit to Lawyer Richards it was stated that "here the reporter acted on his own initiative and responsibility, without the knowledge of his office...