Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from real life, a blandly sentimental portrayal of her onstage is in such great nostalgic demand that Dear Me arrived on Broadway as a presold hit, with $400,000 in advance ticket sales and a golden barge train of 365 theater parties in tow. Its chief asset is Gertrude Berg, a supermom with a heart as big as her hutzpa...
...this is amiably flavorsome matzo-ball soup opera. Gertrude Berg is flawless in her comic timing, wry-arch in gesticulation, a singsong bird of prey who pounces on the feeblest line for a resounding laugh. For wit, there are Jewish folk inflections; for character, stereotypes; for comic insight, racial in-group jokes. Following up on his 1959 hit, A Majority of One, Spigelgass proves that he can bring in greenback gushers without any risky drilling for dramatic art. He is a situation tinker, and his vocation is to be not a playwright but a millionaire...
...Berg spoke lightly of a testimony before the House Merchant Marine Committee Wednesday that compulsory arbitration for maritime disputes "would be a great incentive for more effective collective bargaining." Solon B. Turman, chairman of Lykes Brothers Steamship Company Inc., giving the testimony, said that a threat of binding arbitration would induce labor and management to settle their disputes themselves...
These suggestions, Berg said, are contradicted by past experience. He said that in the past, when labor and management have been faced with a threat of compulsory arbitration, both sides have often preferred to let their problems be arbitrated instead of negotiating them themselves...
...Berg further contended that "compulsory arbitration has never settled an issue...