Word: berge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Gene Nelson (real name: Eugene Berg), 36, nimble-footed actor of stage (Lend an Ear) and screen (Oklahoma!); by Miriam Franklin Nelson, 32; after 13 years of marriage, three of separation, one child; in Los Angeles...
Made to Order. "I don't know why," said freckle-faced Patricia Jane Berg, 38, at Augusta last week, "but somehow this tournament means more than the others. Everyone sort of naturally points for the Titleholders." Since she won the very first Titleholders in 1937, the chunky (5 ft. 2½ in., 140 Ibs.) Chicago redhead has pointed for it so successfully that she has taken first money five other times. Patty Berg's record puts her far ahead of ailing Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her closest competitor, who took three Titleholder championships...
Though she had yet to win a tournament this season, experienced Patty Berg started the Titleholders a slight favorite on her record. The tricky course seemed made to order for her careful game. But Patty figured to have trouble with Georgia's own Louise Suggs, 32, current president of the L.P.G.A. and a trim perfectionist on the fairways. With her rhythmic, classical swing, Louise can whip the clubhead around and belt the ball with the assurance of most male pros. Halfway through the 72-hole tournament, Louise Suggs's steady shots had her out in front...
Vipers & Pearls. The name "Bergère" has nothing to do with shepherds, but was borrowed from the nearby Rue Bergère; the term "Folies" once denoted a lushly thicketed lovers' trysting ground, later came to mean a public place for open-air entertainment. When the Folies-Bergère first opened its doors on May 1, 1869, it specialized in jugglers, acrobats, clowns, wrestlers, singers, a woman with two heads and a "prodigious magician who swallows live snakes, rips open his stomach, and instead of vipers, pulls out Oriental pearl necklaces which he distributes to the ladies...
...many years, the only naked part of the female body that could be seen on a French stage was that bit of a cancan dancer's thigh between her black silk stockings and her frilly white drawers. Then, during World War I, the Folies-Bergère started slowly to get undressed. When Italy came into the war on the Allied side, a military march burst from the Folies orchestra, and 20 superb girls dressed as Italian soldiers charged bravely across the stage, each with one breast bared, as cheers rang out and flags waved. In 1918 the first...