Word: berge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the Goldbergs have never managed to climb out of their Bronx tenement at 1038 East Tremont Avenue (in real life, 1038 is a street intersection). The Goldbergs have never made Park Avenue. But their creator, plump, 50-year-old Gertrude Berg, did. She has also bought a country estate on the more than $1,000,000 she has earned from the multiple Goldberg enterprises...
Beautiful Promise. But, wrote Ansermet, Stravinsky and Twelve-Toner Arnold Schönberg had added two bands of color to the spectrum of western music, "ultraviolet and infra-red." Among other hopefuls, "Alban Berg [TIME, May 31] has written pages of overwhelming beauty. The hour of Berg will come . . . Bartok is a symbol of our times. He is one of those who search groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling. His last works are the most beautiful promise that modern music has offered...
Josephine Baker, 43, irrepressible U.S.-born chanteuse, was rehearsing for her first postwar Folies Bergére. The angular grace, the crossed-eyes mugging and full-throated hollering seemed like the old Jo, even under considerably more costume than the girdle of bananas which first made her the light brown toast of Paris 23 years...
When the weather is right, any Lake Placid winter tourist can buy the thrill of a lifetime-a ride down Mt. Van Hoeven-berg's famed bobsled run. He only has to lay down $1.50 and sign a waiver relieving the State of New York* of all responsibility. Since nobody on the tourist runs is out for the record and the rear crewman rides hard on the brake, the passenger is safe enough. In competition it's different...
While the British still debated what to do, the harried German manager of the Kurbel acted fast. Handbills announced a new feature, Der Kupferne Berg (in English, The Hungry Hill), a dull B-picture about copper mining in Ireland...