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...South Africa, Boer farmers who snared storks arriving on their annual 7,000-mile migration from Holland, found attached to their legs such messages as: "We inhabitants of Bergen-op-Zoom tell you German occupation is just hell...
...botany at Tokyo's Imperial University, was studying at Giessen in Germany in the fateful summer of 1939. When Germany invaded Poland, the Japanese Government ordered Kamiya to get out. Not stopping for books or clothing, he left posthaste for the U. S. by way of Hamburg and Bergen. He wrote to Dr. Seifriz, asking if he could go to work in his laboratory. Seifriz welcomed him. "First thing I did," Seifriz recalls, "was to lend him a raincoat." Kamiya still...
...spur the U. S. air corps' recruiting drive Charlie McCarthy turned up with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G. Weir, base commander. Viewing 21 flying fortresses lined up in his honor, Charlie suggested: "Try putting a hostess in each...
...Bergen, Wald und Auen
...Most popular program was that of Edgar Bergen, with a rating of 40 per 100 set-owners polled. Runner-up with 39 was the unctuous Jack Benny, with Lux Radio Theatre, Fibber McGee & Molly and the Kraft Music Hall trailing along after...