Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesser degree, does George Price. He lives in an old 18th-Century Bergen County Dutch house in Tenafly, N.J., which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...
...Bergen, death before a firing squad came to three young Norwegians, first in Norway's modern history to suffer capital punishment. The charge: a secret visit to England; possession of a British radio transmitter...
...audience that can get the savor of Edgar Bergen's ventriloquism can probably get the savor of anything-even a disembodied Marlene Dietrich. This week radio addicts will get a chance to do precisely that. For one full hour Miss Dietrich will do her sultry best to vocalize the life and hard times of Scheherazade...
Early this week Franklin Roosevelt moved the U.S. squarely into the Battle of the Atlantic. In Reykjavik, U.S. naval forces had landed, and Iceland was in hand (see p. 17). From where they were New York was 3,900 miles away, but Norway's Nazi-occupied Bergen was only 1,800 miles, Scotland's port of Glasgow only 1,600 miles, and Berlin a mere 2,800 miles as the bomber flies. The Western Hemisphere had stretched once more. The President had taken another great step...
...Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente was born of this fear. Cried the Kaiser to Reporter Hale in the Bergen fjord...