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...Hoffa must investigate and take disciplinary measures against Owen ("Bert") Brennan of Detroit, an international vice president of the Teamsters and one of Hoffa's closest cronies, accused of using union welfare funds to pay a prize fighter he once managed...
Politics at Dawn. Clements had his candidate waiting in the wings: Bert Thomas Combs, 47, onetime state Supreme Court judge who barely lost to Chandler himself in the 1955 gubernatorial primary. But long before Clements got Combs launched, the anti-Chandler field got crowded by the gubernatorial announcement of Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, onetime Louisville mayor (1941-45), and personal campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Backed by the Stevenson-prone Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Wyatt was too much of a city egghead to suit Clements' plans...
Repertory Boston, so recently given up for dead, is demonstrating not only life but considerable liveliness in presenting the English-language premiere of Bert Brecht's "episodes from the history of the landowner, Puntila, and his hired man, Matti." Its official opening, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed until tonight because of an injury to a cast member; at Tuesday night's preview Puntila appeared as an odd, erratic, interesting, annoying, basically refractory and intractable script, worth, in its Wilbur incarnation, more than many considerably smoother enterprises...
Acting on Turner's instructions two years ago, Agent Bert Kerr bought a highly regarded yearling named Tuleg for $25,000 at Britain's Newmarket sales. Chiefly to provide a traveling companion for Tuleg, Kerr threw in another $6,720 for Tomy Lee, a blaze-faced bay colt whose ancestry indicated he lacked the stamina to win at distances over a mile...
...javelin will be close. On paper, the Crimson should have three of the first four finishers in Blodgett, Skip Pescosolido, and Bert Kneeland. But Blodgett went from 184 feet., 1 in. against Army to 169 feet against Princeton, and the rest of the javelin throwers are equally unpredictable...