Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together in Mexico City's radio station XEW by the first south-of-the-border broadcast of a big-time U.S.. program were Rumania's ex-King Carol, Mistress Magda Lupescu, U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith and wife Marion, pert Puppet Charlie McCarthy and Dandier Edgar Bergen. "Hi, horseface!" yipped Charlie, staring down from the stage at a U.S. Embassy attaché's small son. The audience guffawed, thinking he was addressing McCarthy-fan Carol, who has acquired that nickname in certain Mexico City circles...
...final four were Samuel S. Hall, 3rd, of Needham and Lowell House, drawing 169 ballots, Dana Fernald, of Merien Station, Pa. and Adams House, and Richard G. Axt, of North Bergen, N. J. and Kirkland House tied for eighth place at 168 apiece, and finally James D. Cameron, Jr., of Lenox and Kirkland House with 165 votes...
...most, the German fleet in Norway consists of the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck, which was destroyed on its long dash out of Bergen two years ago; the 26,000-ton Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, repaired after their successful run through the Channel last year; the pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Lützow; two 10,000-ton cruisers of the Hipper class; and perhaps ten destroyers...
...morning for calisthenics and rifle drill. They also have machine-gun practice. From 1 o'clock in the afternoon until dinnertime they rehearse everything from Tchaikovsky to Cow-Cow Boogie. Four nights a week they broadcast with such assisting talent as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour and Fanny Brice. Their U.S.-sponsored programs, two over coast-to-coast networks, are Thursday's Wings to Victory, Friday's Hello Mom, Saturday's Soldiers with Wings, Sunday's Wings over the West Coast...
Finally the baker's masterpiece was cut, with soldiers yelling: "Give me a piece, Eleanor!" For cake-eating accompaniment Charlie and Bergen quipped over Charlie's lunch that day at the White House...