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Reynolds, a graduate of the College in the Class of 1950, will fill the shoes of Bert Haines, who retired last year after 33 years of coaching. Reynolds rowed number four on the 1950 varsity heavies, the crew which went to Henley, England, and won the Grand Challenge Cup. He is presently in the graduate school...
...Star Summer Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). With Bert Wheeler, Ella Fitzgerald, Grace Hartman...
Hooray for Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx; Decca LP). Six zany songs by the team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, best known for such ditties as Three Little Words. Groucho's audible leer, set off by a barbershop quintet, works over Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Hackenbush and the immortal Show Me a Rose ("Or leave me alone...
Guerrilla Warfare. So many topnotch reporters worked on every angle of the story that, as Herald Tribune Correspondent Bert Andrews pointed out, "there's very little opportunity here for any exclusives. It's just a matter of grinding it out." But there were beats of a sort by those willing to take chances. The day the convention started, Editor Louis Seltzer of the Cleveland Press climbed right out on a limb with a Page One story headlined: IKE WILL WIN ON THE 3RD OR 4TH BALLOT. Two days later in Chicago, Publisher John Knight predicted in the Daily...
...followed Bert's advice. He opened an office in Washington, but when he got married he bought a house across the Potomac in Arlington County. He paid Virginia state income taxes, and, in fact, eventually became a good friend of the state tax collector. When one of his daughters grew up and began filing federal income tax returns, he helped her fill them out. But for 30 years, Chiropractor Meyers never paid a cent of federal income tax himself. Bert's misinformation had "cocooned" in his mind...