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Rank Amateur. In Oakland, Calif., the shore patrol arrested Bertha Watson for impersonating a WAC, after noting that she wore a colonel's eagle on one shoulder, a general's star on the other...
Married. Marjorie Bertha Morgenstierne, 19, "Miss United Nations of 1946" and daughter of Norway's Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne; and Physicist John Howard Coleman, 25; in Washington...
Died. A. H. ("Al") Woods (real name: Aladore Herman), 81, who made and lost several fortunes as producer of hundreds of Broadway and road shows, ranging from early-century corn (Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl) to naughty jazz-age farces (The Demi-Virgin) to hit plays (The Green Hat, with Katharine Cornell; The Trial of Mary Dugan, with Ann Harding) ; in Manhattan...
After three days, Singapore came under control again. Scores of demonstrators were in jail, and seething Moslem leaders vowed to carry on the legal fight for Bertha's return to her husband. The Singapore "Nadra Fund" collected $3,000 to keep it going. The riots had cost 17 dead, more than 150 injured...
Chants of "Bertha!" A K.L.M. airliner flew Bertha and her mother home to Holland. The whole country was agog over their arrival. There were shouts of welcome, chants of "Bertha," government greeters, hard-pressing cameramen and reporters. Through it all, the jungle girl kept a sullen look. At the Hertoghs' festive home town, Bergen op Zoom, Bertha met her brothers & sisters. After a bit, two of her sisters persuaded her to come with them on a balcony and see the townspeople below. She did so. As Bergen op Zoom cheered, Bertha's sullenness gave way to a smile...