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HENRIK: You always were a good peasant, Bert. Direct. But an adaption? As I sat there, backstage, listening to his words and repeating my words softly for my own ears, I felt as though my body was being desecrated. Once I looked down and I swear my legs ended at the knees. Oh McBain, vile college lad, why did you poke about in the Doctor's speeches and spoil all the careful development of the younger-generation-knocking-on-the-door theme? There was no method to your wretched emmendations...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: The Master Builder | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...City won't know its exact financial position--and this year's tax rate--for several months. It must first receive the so-called "cherry sheet" which details the City's anticipated revenues from and obligations to the state and agencies such as the MBTA. bert E. Rudolph told the council that...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Dunphy Submits $32.9 Million Budget; Rotary Around Common May End Soon | 2/20/1968 | See Source »

...Died. Bert Wheeler, 72, vaudeville, Broadway and Hollywood comedian; of emphysema; in Manhattan. Gifted with a rubberized grin, a quavering voice, and a talent for leaking torrents of tears on cue, Wheeler was a comic fixture ever since 1911 when he played in George M. Cohan's 45 Minutes from Broadway. He went on to the Ziegfeld Follies, then to Hollywood, where he teamed with the late Robert Woolsey in some 30 comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 26, 1968 | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...unions and has shown a dummy issue to prospective advertisers. This week the directors of the Chicago Tribune-Daily News meet in Florida to ponder a decision. "The News is farther down the road toward bringing out a paper than anyone else has been," says International Typographers Union Boss Bert Powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Signs of Life in New York | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...scenic result of that titanic clash was a novelty and a rarity. The actor emerged as Bird Lahr and Aristophanes authored a brand-new play: The Bert. After all, this is the only process by which drama survives through the ages. Its apparently dead body has to be revived by a great actor's live heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1968 | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

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