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...matter how solemn, seldom worry about what their paintings mean; they are too busy deciding how the pictures should look. Grownups can bother their heads about the meaning-and some do. In a book published last week (Painting and Personality, University of Chicago; $10), Psychologists Rose Alschuler and La Berta Hattwick read some big meanings into little dabblings. Among them: emotionally well-adjusted little children incline to paint free, open forms, in warm colors. Unhappy ones often choose cold colors (especially black), paint tightly enclosed designs. Easygoing kids draw lots of curves; aggressive ones prefer straight lines. Children seem...
...fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...
William O. Goodrich--Berta George (Radcliffe...
Born. To Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 51, World War I draft dodger, now at liberty after serving almost five years of a seven and a half year sentence in Army prisons, and Berta Frank Bergdoll, 37, applicant for U.S. citizenship: their seventh child, a son; one week after the death of Bergdol's 83-year-old mother, Emma Bergdoll; in West Chester...
...London Clipper last week brought to Manhattan a copy of the first dispassionate and detailed account of music in Adolf Hitler's Germany. The Baton and the Jackboot by Berta Geissmar (Hamish Hamilton; 155) is the record of a Mannheim Jewess who managed to stay in the midst of Nazi musical politics until her escape from Germany before the war. Miss Geissmar was secretary of the Berlin Philharmonic. Her book gives an intimate picture of one of Nazi Germany's two world-famed musical figures, Conductor Wilhelm FurtwĠngler (the other: Composer Richard Strauss...