Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FILLES. Jim finally located Niobe in the 42nd Street Library copying Munkacsy's painting of Milton in his blindness dictating to his daughters. She got away. Next time Niobe turned up was at memorial cervices for Bloodgood H. Cutter, "the Long Island Farmer Poet." As Mrs. Bertha K. Hollings of Butte, Mont., she said a few words in honor of Cutter's memory, ran away when Jim chased her. Soon afterward she emerged as "Miss Sanderson," evangelist for the Society for the Preservation of Happiness...
...porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
...Journal that they have just published includes stories about the scaling of Mt. Hayes in 1941, an expedition to Peru, the conquest of Mt. Bertha in Alaska, and the trek up Mt. Walsh and Mt. Wood in Yukon territory...
...Joseph Pennington, who organized the group, said last night that he hoped the idea would catch on in other departments. Those, besides Pennington, who were among the first to give blood in Boston yesterday were: Mrs. Catherine Donovan, Mrs. Catherine Mervin, Mrs. Dorothy Irwin, Mrs. Alma Thomas, and Mrs. Bertha Mederos...
...BATS FLY AT DUSK - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). Private Detective Bertha Cool, minus her diminutive partner, Donald Lam, though absent from scene, supplies the right answers to both murders, a spot of forgery, and other villainy. An exceptionally clever plot, much lusty humor - and Bertha Cool, saltiest of female sleuths...