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...BERTHA GODFREY is a quick-tempered housewife from Tallapoosa Co., Ala. When a white woman's car smashed into hers and the police chief who investigated the accident said it was her fault, she snapped at him, "Just because I'm a Negro woman you want to treat me like this...
...Mamas and the Papas are two beards, a beauty and a Big Bertha. After knocking around the fringes of folk music separately for a few lean years, they joined forces in 1965 and made their first single, California Dreamin'. It went straight to the top of the bestseller charts, as did their next release, Monday, Monday. Papa John Phillips, 25, an Annapolis dropout, is the group's songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings...
...BERTHA J. SWEZEY...
...some of the very best country restaurants in the U.S. are operated by people who began as amateurs and almost by accident. When the death of her husband left Bertha Hinshaw a mon eyless widow 37 years ago, she did the only thing she knew how to do. She put a sign in front of her house and started cooking. Now her 125-seat Chalet Suzanne Resort Inn is one of Central Florida's greatest attractions. Fly-in diners can land on an 1,800-ft. turf airstrip and her famous soups sell for 690 a can in markets...
Chalet Suzanne Resort Inn, Highway 27 near Lake Wales, Fla. Bertha Hinshaw is 83, but she still runs the show. Her soups are so good that 600 gourmet shops in the U.S. and Europe carry them in cans...