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Visiting Louisville, Ky. with his 38-year-old bride, Vice President Alben W. Berkley, 72, said that he expects their honeymoon will last 33 more years. His explanation: "I originally planned to live to be 100, but a fortune teller in Egypt gave me five more years...
Thorns & Roses Vice President Alben Berkley celebrated his 72nd birthday while honeymooning in Sea Island, Ga. To well-wishers who phoned, the hotel desk clerk said that Barkley had left a message: "Barring the untimely death of the President or a declaration of war, not to be contacted, much less disturbed." Craig Rice, 41, popular whodunit writ er (Home Sweet Homicide), was committed as a chronic alcoholic to Camarillo State Hospital in California...
Vice President Alben W. Berkley and Fiancee Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley bore up remarkably well under the strain of a full pre-wedding week. Recovering from flu in a St. Louis, hospital, Mrs. Hadley made every minute count by approving the final details of her trousseau (a blue wedding dress and eight other new outfits). Barkley was a passenger aboard an Air Force B-17 that narrowly missed a collision with a blimp near Washington's National Airport. Meanwhile, word reached the Vice President that St. Louis streetcar motormen, passing the home of his bride-to-be, were calling...
Vice President Alben Berkley began to fancy his privacy but went on paying the price of fame. His black limousine pulled up in front of a flossy Washington jeweler's after closing time, and the door was opened for the bridegroom-elect. Afterward, newsmen told him that he had been spotted and asked for an explanation. "Oh, hell," groaned Barkley, then sheepishly admitted shopping for a ring...
Ernest T. Berkley was named Chairman of Common Room Activities, Stephen I. Rudin Chairman of Union Activities, Daniel J. Young Chairman of Union Athletic Committee, John S. Herman Chairman of the Union Dance Committee, Richard E. Johnson Secretary of the Union Committee, George C. Vlahos Representative to the Crimson Key Society, and Paul M. Marbry and Richard T. Povill Representative to the Student Council...