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...Friendly Tone. This vignette of how Britain's Prime Minister first heard of the historic event was related last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who got it from friends of U.S. Ambassador to Russia Harriman. The anecdote was a pertinent comment on U.S. and British newscasting styles.* Its counterpart could scarcely have happened in the U.S.-especially with George Fredric Putnam† at the microphone...
...Friday's Freshman barge race over the three-quarter mile course, a crew stroked by Dave Satz, Jr. eked out a close victory over the other four barge crews trained by Coach Bert Haines since the beginning of the summer...
...being "sleepless" in their efforts "to spread disunion among the Allies." As he read on, the President, obviously enjoying his ready-made answer, paused once to interpolate that the Herald Tribune is (accented) a respectable newspaper and to smile benignly at the HT's Washington correspondent, comfortable, spectacled Bert Andrews...
...plugged songs with George Gershwin, played the piano for Irving Berlin, and accompanied Walter Winchell, who was singing at the time in a Woolworth 5-&-10? store on 14th Street. His first real break came when he got a job with a baldish music publisher and prestidigitator named Bert Kalmar. With Kalmar as collaborator, Ruby composed so many hits and Broadway musicals (Five O'Clock Girl; Animal Crackers; Helen of Troy, N.Y.; Top Speed) that Hollywood beckoned...
There are also some new characters: Rose, whose face is transformed and whose body sways when swing music as sails her from the factory loudspeakers; Bert Ogmore, the Communist assistant foreman, who is so devout he is practically a Russian; Lord Brixen, the fashion plate, who is a safe second string of the Conservative Party, and four men who are responsible for the functioning of the factory and most of the novel's dramatics: James Cheviot, the general manager; Francis Blandford, his chief engineer; Maurice Angleby, assistant engineer; Bob Elrick, the works superintendent...