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Andersen was Harvard's first full-time lightweight coach since Bert Haines retired in 1952. A 1966 graduate of Dartmouth, he captained his freshmen crew and rowed two years on the varsity...
...Bert Barnes, Yale's number four man, clinched the match by beating Yank Heisler on 19. Heisler, who played some of the best golf of the day, missed a twofooter on the crunchy green...
...almost surrealistic ceremonies included nine speakers, champagne, and the crowning of a Miss Dunster Light Pipe. Sally Gates, a Drama Society participant, christened the light bridge in a ritual worthy of Bert Parks and the Miss America Pageant...
HENRIK: So visceral, Bert, so much the peasant. So what do they give me? Yakutis, Miss Susan Yakutis, interprets Hilde Wangel. She has a honeyed voice, Bert, a throat that lets slip pure and full sounds. A richly voweled music breaks from her. But her face is too fleshy, her stature too mean to be a princess. She stamps and pouts too much. Here is this woman, who should be a cistern of demonic forces, and she lets you think she quarrels over prices at the butcher...
HENRIK: As for the Master Builder's wife, there's a bit of shine in this narrative. Sheila Hart played her, Bert. Dear girl! How wonderful she was in those speeches, cruel speeches where she confesses lifelessness. Who could have heard Miss Hart and not mourned that woman? A dry passion she has, a terrible brittle passion...