Word: berger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burg attempted to save Stephen M. Berger of Chestnut Hill from the attack of the armed and drunken boys. When he intervened, one of the boys cried, "I'm drunk and I'm tough, and you'd better watch out." Then they struck Burg from all sides and cut him on he scalp with sharpened belt-buckles...
Stanley P. Burg '54, visiting at the home of a friend heard cries for help and ran outside to find five youths assaulting Stephen Berger. When Burg attempted to fight the attackars off they turned on him with heavy belts and switch knives. He suffered a black eye in the struggle which ensued. The Berger boy was rushed to Newton Wellesley Hospital in serious condition with a possible fraetuted skull...
...worth having. A modest 42-year-old Javanese painter named Affandi can qualify on both counts. He has never taken a formal art lesson in his life, but after his first big exhibit in London six months ago, the New Statesman's John Berger flatly called him "a painter of genius." Last week, at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts, the critics got another glimpse of Affandi and he still looked very good...
When it came Denise's turn to hear the charges against her, she burst into tears and tried to explain. "I was too unhappy," she sobbed. "I had no money. I became Berger's mistress because he terrorized me. He was a madman. I wanted to escape but he came to find me and dragged me by the hair...
...fell into Berger's arms pretty fast," snapped one of the nine judges of the military court. "Oh, no!" cried Denise. "Not very fast." Replied the judge sardonically: "Let us say, fast. You knew what he was doing...