Word: berges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That new name and that proud statement brought gusty joy to a hilarious new sodality lately war-born in, of all places, the Argentine. In Buenos Aires two months ago a group of young Britons and Anglo-Argentines, mostly junior executives in Ernst, Berg & Cia. (advertising agency), formed, half in fun and half in earnest, the Fellowship of the Bellows. Aim: "to raise the wind" for purchasing Hurricane and other fighter planes for the R. A. F. Method: each member contributes one Argentine centavo (4?) for each Axis plane downed during the month. Thus, in October the Fellowship...
Servants of the Bellows, "to be blown into office annually unless blown out," are High Wind (President) William Rumboll of Ernst, Berg & Cia.; Whirlwinds (Secretaries) George Ward and Alan Murray, both of London & South American Investment Trust; Receiver of Windfalls (Treasurer) and Keeper of the Windbag (Assistant Treasurer) Colin Shearer and George Collins, respectively...
Most violinists were content to let him keep his unplayable piece to himself. Not so Louis Krasner. This bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand...
Famed Surgeon Albert Ashton Berg then told of 173 patients on whom he had operated; 29 were desperate cases, and of these, all but five survived. These cases, said Dr. Berg, all came to him because they were "medical failures...
...this Dr. Berg made candid answer: "The surgeon can only be accused of accessory murder. The premeditated murder lies at the doorstep of those internists who permit their patients to get into such a deplorable state in which only the 'Hand of the Almighty' could save them. Would Dr. Andresen let them all die? . . . I am sorry that my remarks offended [him] . . . I simply asked for a closer cooperation...