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...Bert Coville," hurdler on the Varsity, track team, says he feels about three feet tall. He has to run the 45-yard high hurdles against Harrison Dillard at the Garden tonight. "Maybe there'll be enough other guys running so I can get lost in the crowd," Coville said yesterday. Charlie Summerall, freshmen hurdler, will also...
Said he: "The Cardinals refer to him, in hushed tones, as Fearless Bert Wilson. He has fixed upon the Cardinals a cold, disapproving eye, and frankly, we are not up to meeting it. We have lowered our own eyes. He has been predicting for weeks that the Cardinals would fold...
This week, WIND's Fearless Bert Wilson was at the mike as usual when Conzelman's Cardinals stalked the crosstown Chicago Bears in a battle royal at Wrigley Field. And as usual, Wilson had made his partisanship clear: "I don't care who wins, as long as it's the Bears." The temperature was a chilly 35°, but Conzelman's boys were hot. By beating the Bears, they won the National League western division championship, and silenced-at least for the moment-radio's voice of doom. Score: Cardinals 30, Bears...
...Marx brothers are survivals of a vanishing era. They, together with buffoons Bobby Clark and Bert Lahr, and screenmen Laurel and Hardy, are the last of a unique school of slapstick comedians. Spawned in old-time vaudeville and burlesque, the brothers excel in the highly specialized arts of pantomime, pie throwing, and provocative leering at women, while our present generation of couriers relies chiefly on flip lines and artless mugging. Slapstick is passing out of existence, but not out of date. Until a new generation of wits rediscover the art, go down to the Laffmovie and rear at the last...
...Bert Andrews, of the stanchly Republican New York Herald Tribune, calculated quickly. "Will that be after the election next year?" he asked. The President looked him straight in the eye. With a faint edge in his voice, he said yes, that will be after the election. He paused. You know, he added dryly, the presidential term does not expire until January...