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Splashed over three columns of the staid New York Law Journal was an account of how the feathers flew when gravel-voiced Comic Bert Lahr, 66, went to court over a duck who swiped his style. Back in 1961, Lahr slapped a $500,000 suit on the Adell Chemical Co., Inc. and a producer of TV commercials, for featuring a duck that sounded as if it had Lahryngitis. The actor speaking for the duck, quacked Lahr's lawyer, not only "misappropriated" Lahr's distinctive delivery, but also injured his reputation by giving the impression "that he was reduced...
According to the grand jury indictment, Hoffa and the late Owen Bert Brennan, Teamster vice president, got $1,008,057 from Commercial Carriers, a company bound by contract to Teamster Local 299 (president: Jimmy Hoffa). Under the scheme, Commercial Carriers set up a company named Test Fleet in Nashville, Tenn., then transferred all of its stock in the firm to the wives of Hoffa and Brennan, taking care to muddle the trail by using their maiden names, Josephine Poszywak (Mrs. Hoffa) and Alice Johnson (Mrs. Brennan). Commercial Carriers then agreed to lease Test Fleet's ten trucks...
...other youngsters before they are marked for life by their home environment. The project: a unique nursery school that educators hope will be widely imitated. "It's extremely important that we get kids from underprivileged areas into school at the age of three or four," says Teacher Bert Pryor. 45, the school's founder. "By the age of five or six, many children have already jelled into a pattern of failure in school...
...author explains (stoutly refusing to allow himself the joys of obscurantism) means "of the sun, solar." The bookseller is subverter, protector, panderer and priest to a group of curious cripples-Julius, his bloodless, asexual young assistant; Louise, a housewife whose husband thinks her job is honest modeling; Bert, a cheerful, muscled vacuum; Veronica, a faintly mad Soho drifter; and Bateman, a policeman. Louise, Bert and Veronica pose for the pornographic pictures, and Bateman, assigned by headquarters to investigate the bookstore, shifts allegiance and becomes the cameraman. Each is held to the bookseller by his hurts, but each, unexpectedly, is strengthened...
OKLAHOMA'S Democratic Representative Carl Bert Albert, 53, is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, wears an elfin grin, and is so inconspicuous that he might be mistaken for a filing clerk in his own office. But Albert has qualities that should serve him well as majority floor leader: he combines an abiding love of the House with a shrewd sense of its mood that has earned him respect on both sides of the aisle and at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue...