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Harvard's other land competitor, Bertha Cohen, a Russian immigrant who when she died in 1965 had properties that virtually ringed Harvard holdings, also stayed aloof from both Cambridge politics and her neighbors. Through land speculation and stock earnings Cohen became a millionare several times over. However, Bradlee recalls, "If you saw her on the street you would never have known she had a dime...
...Krupp Foundation owns all of the shares of the Krupp companies which manufactured "Big Bertha" and other weapons for Nazi Germany in World War II. The company now manufactures steel, trucks and other industrial products...
Died. Gladys Bertha ("G.B.") Stern, 83, prolific, witty British novelist who wrote an average of one novel a year between 1920 and 1964; in Wallingford, England. Stern was best known for Monogram, The Rueful Mating and a five-book family saga, The Matriarch, that became a successful London play and a Hollywood movie...
...Fritz gets involved in a hilarious orgy in a Village bathtub, is nearly busted by two cops, drawn inevitably as pigs, takes off to Harlem after an interminable chase through a synagogue, and is turned on to grass. Stoned, he makes inadequate love to a blimplike crow named Big Bertha; having thus grasped the black experience, he becomes a revolutionary. "My soul is tortured and tormented by this racial crisis," he informs Duke, another crow he meets in a Harlem bar, to which Duke properly replies, "No sheeyut...
...other two new Dead songs, "Bertha" and "Playing in the Band," are almost polar opposites. "Bertha," typical of the Dead's blues, is a lament on moving on and leaving a woman. "Playing in the Band," however, is a personal statement on what playing in a group means to one of the members...