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...Wall Street mystery was solved when Bertin C. Gamble, 63, admitted to being the anonymous bidder who offered $40 a share for 470,000 shares of Chicago's General Outdoor Advertising. Elusive Bert Gamble, who built up the Gamble-Skogmo chain of auto accessory and appliance shops (380 stores, 2,000 dealers), now specializes in buying companies and reselling them at a handsome profit. Backed up by $45 million in cash from the 1960 sale of Gamble-Skogmo Inc.'s interest in Western Auto Supply, Gamble says he wants control of North America's biggest outdoor advertising...
...Bert Messenbaugh and Eric Nelson, who also opposed spring practice, argued that the present football program is especially valuable to pre-med majors such as themselves. They praised the Ivy League for its "intellectual maturity" and "beautiful sense of compromise" in keeping the emphasis on football such that the player has a chance to pursue academic interests and careers...
Wonderland by Night (Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra; Dacca). An import from Germany that rocks on its mistily melodic way like an old-fashioned excursion steamer. The orchestra is expert, the vintage Prom Trotter...
Leading off for Penn will be co-captain Ken Lehman, followed at number two by the other co-captain, Tom Patzau. Other Penn players are Bert Berkwich, Bill Reynolds, John Kent, and Marty Cohen...
Doubtless inspired by Hollywood's success at integrating jazz and movies, a photographer named Bert Stern did some experimenting at the 1958 Jazz Festival in Newport, and the results are intriguing. Stern's film, Jazz on a Summer's Day, is a series of close-detail impressions taken in and around the Festival, using the jazz as background. And despite a noticeable uncertainty of purpose, it's an exceedingly fine...