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Last week, Herberger looked something like deadwood himself. The board got him to kick himself upstairs to chairman. In as president went 54-year-old Bert Prall, Butler's retail boss. Bespectacled, garden-loving Bert Prall was a tougher man than he looked. Before resigning as a Montgomery Ward vice president in 1946, he had stood up for 15 years under Sewell Avery-and had long been manager of hard lines. As boss of money-losing Butler Bros., Prall might find it was still hard lines...
...same all over the U.S. Along Detroit's Livernois Avenue, the used-car center of the Midwest, buyers were scarce. Bert Baker, one of the biggest U.S. independent dealers in the business, had gone $96,000 into the red since November and his huge lot looked empty. He had only 110 cars on display v. nearly 400 in November. Like other dealers, Bert had been unloading his stock as fast as he could, even at a loss. He had cut his payroll from 161 to 31; even so, his men had time, as well as cars, on their hands...
...Wizard of Oz. A happily inspired reissue of the ten-year-old classic, with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr (TIME...
Police revealed yesterday that Bert MacLeech, 40-yard-old student at the Graduate School of Education, was bailed out of jail late Wednesday by a woman identified as his fourth wife. MacLeech had been arrested early that morning on perjury charges, filed by officials in Tacoma, Washington...
...Bert MacLeech, is a graduate of Occidental College, California. He has been attending the Graduate School of Education steadily since the summer of 1948. Previously he had been enrolled during the spring term of 1946, and before that, had attended Columbia Teachers College, Union Theological Seminary, and Stanford University...