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...Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...
...remember how the Rodgers & Hart tune goes when the band begins playing an even better one by George & Ira Gershwin. There is Gracie Barrie to keep the good songs ringing clear, Buxom Mitzi Mayfair to strut the hot numbers, Paul Haakon to leap through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian on the revue stage, as a noisy Hollywood actor trying to chisel out of paying his income tax and as an over-manly baritone in a hickory shirt bellowing, "What do you chop when you chop a tree!" while occasionally getting an untimely handful...
...National Park Service headquarters on the University of California campus at Berkeley, men were hard at work last week framing, glazing and cataloging a collection of 198 oil and watercolor paintings. At the same time, high in the snows of Yosemite, Director C. A. ("Bert") Harwell of the Yosemite National Park Museum was scratching his head over the largest windfall his institution had ever received...
...Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U. S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White planes. Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down...
...Schmidt in the hurdles and dash. If he can beat Donovan from Dartmouth in the Quadangular meet in either of these events it will be surprising, but he can be counted upon for some points. In the weight events he will be aided by Steve Brennan, Ed Young, and Bert Litman. In the middle distance events, the point winners are expected to be Al Northrop, if he gets off pro, and Bill O'Connor. For the long ones, Henry Marey, Cyrus DeCoster, and Charley Worth. The pole vault has Emil Dubiel, maybe...