Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race marked the end of the fall rowing season for the lightweights who are under Bert Haines' coaching for the first time. The Varsity and Freshmen will continue rowing next week, the inexperienced Freshman crews staging a race Wednesday afternoon. Varsity boats will probably race on Friday and then have a layoff until after Midyears...
...aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these affairs: "Bert certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march by." Under the Tribune masthead each day has appeared "The Tribune platform for 1936: Turn the Rascals Out." Last week the Tribune editorial columns were devoted to the thesis that Franklin Roosevelt deliberately planned and abetted the banking panic...
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine became bitter enemies. Admiral Richard E. Byrd knocked out Bert Acosta with a flashlight as their plane circled over France. Joseph Marie Lebrix "sickened of being a valet" to Dieudonne Coste. Alexander Magyar challenged George Endres to a duel. To this tradition which dictates that men who have flown the North Atlantic together shall not long be friends, Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill last week lived up with a bang...
...Bert Haines will again coach the applicants for seats in the Freshman crew which isn't finally whipped together until spring time. Bert has seen Varsity crew coaches come and go, and it is prety certain that he'll see more pass in review before he gives up his job. For those who have no weight to give away, the 150-pound crews offer an opportunity. Less exacting than the regular crew practice, is sculling on the river in the dozens of sculls which are housed in the Weld Boat House across the river from the regular crew headquarters (Newell...
...nucleus of next year's staff will be Bill O'Connor, Al Northrop, Bill Schmidt, Bert Litman, Emile Dubiel, Henry Marey, Charley Worth, and Bob Woodward. These runners can not be disregarded by any team...