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Oldtime Airman Bert Acosta, 57, headliner of the '20s, turned up in a Manhattan restaurant, down on his luck and ill with tuberculosis. Whisked off to a hospital, he got a get-well letter from Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard E. Byrd, who flew across the Atlantic after Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, with Bernt Balchen (now an Air Force colonel) and Acosta as copilots...
...warned him to pay off a tidy item of $500,000 if he wanted to stay out of income-tax trouble. Charles Oliphant, the resigned Revenue Bureau counsel, admitted that he was a close friend of Grunewald and had talked to him about the Teitelbaum case. Frank Nathan and Bert Naster, the two Florida promoters identified in Teitelbaum's testimony as shakedown agents for a Govern ment "clique," were both friends of Grunewald. When Mystery Man Grunewald finally appeared on Capitol Hill last week, the investigators could hardly wait to unravel his fascinating story...
...Aisle. Topical revue with Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray, which can thank its stars for its brightness (TIME, July...
Commissioner Bert Bell of the National Football League last week offered a radical suggestion for scoring the professional game: eliminate the point after touchdown and score each touchdown as seven points. As it is, said Bell, the extra point is a "waste of time"; by eliminating it, "we will do away with the one-point spread in which gamblers are so much interested." In case of a tie game he proposed an extra "sudden-death" period at the end of the four conventional quarters. After a scoreless extra period, a tie would presumably be called...
...greatest drawbacks of the game then was also solved by a Harvard man--1903 captain Bert Walters. Before this time there was no neutral zone between the teams, only an imaginary scrimmage line. The lines of both teams constantly crowded this line and the referee went mad trying to spot offside offenders and keep the teams straight. To help the situation, Walters suggested today's neutral zone...