Word: berge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Works by Scriabin, Szymanowski, Ranchmaninoff, Western, Berg, and Liszt; Vivian Taylor, pianist; Eliot Library, 8:30; free...
...feeding the squirrels with samples provided by the Northern California Walnut Growers Association. Daunted by Proposition Nine, Chappie thought at first that he would have to find some walnuts grown on state land to keep the squirrels from becoming a vanishing breed. But then Assemblyman Edwin L. Z'berg won 50 Ibs. of walnuts in a raffle, which he promptly gave to Chappie. Now other assemblymen are anteing up a buck apiece for a nut fund to keep the squirrels gamboling as happily as in the days before Proposition Nine altered the ways and means of everyone...
...Berg never spoke of his spy experiences to friends or relatives, and he refused to detail his OSS missions even for Government records. His secrets were probably lost forever when, inMay 1972, Berg died at the age of 70 from injuries suffered in a fall at his bachelor apartment in Newark...
...Berg grew up in that city, the son of an immigrant Russian Jewish pharmacist. At Princeton, he excelled in romance languages and stopping balls as the varsity shortstop. Berg lacked confidence that he could make it in the majors, but he reasoned that baseball was the most enjoyable way to earn enough money to study phonetics at the Sorbonne. The Brooklyn Dodgers, who probably thought Berg had said something about liking sour buns, offered him a $5,000 contract...
...rookie in 1923, Berg proved to be a great glove, a slow runner and a weak bat. The standard line on Moe was that he could speak many languages but couldn't hit in any of them. But as a catcher with the Chicago White Sox and later with the Boston Red Sox, he made a place for himself in the major leagues. "I spent years attempting to master a number of foreign languages," he said, "and what happens? I turn out to be a catcher and am reduced to sign language on the ballfield...