Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, better known as the brains of wooden Charlie McCarthy, was booked on the college circuit last week. His stint: a two-lecture stand at the University of California at Los Angeles. Purpose: to give hopeful undergraduate script writers a working view of good gags, bad gags, comic ideas-right out of a horsing mouth...
...Bergen, three Norwegians were shot on charges of possessing arms and attempting to escape to England. Total Norwegians shot to date...
...means the first direct action taken by labor in Norway, the strike topped off a long series of incidents. In January a string of German warehouses were fired. In March the main aqueduct in Oslo was cut. The Germans have had repeated trouble keeping the important Bergen-Oslo railroad open. Mysterious fires, destroying German goods, continually break out all over the country...
...Portland Summer Symphony became the first concert orchestra to hire Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as guest artists. Object: to wipe out a $1,500 deficit. (Failed by $500, because of bad weather.) McCarthy gagged between numbers, did not conduct the orchestra. Said Conductor Paul LeMay, who did: "I wouldn't do it again...
...Jersey, 84 cases were reported since the beginning of August. Health officers from the entire State were mobilized. Equipment was concentrated at Bergen County's isolation hospital, Bergen Pines. In Hackensack, swimming pools were closed...