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...first two men, big 190 lb. Ace Cordingly and slender Bob Graves, are now Juniors and have played together since their Freshman year. Cordingly, only recently recovered from a football injury, in the Big Bertha of the outfit and Graves' long, well-balanced game belies his weight. Last summer, Cordingly climaxed a summer of golfing wars by finishing as low Amateur in the Iowa State Open...
...After 21 years in the Commerce, Treasury and Justice Departments, Bertha Lonergan, salary now $1,620 a year in the Department of Justice: "We old warhorses" are passed over for younger, prettier girls such as Miss Margaret Stanley (a niece of Special Assistant Attorney General William Stanley) with no Civil Service rating and only two years' experience, who now is paid the same as War Horse Lonergan...
...BIGGER THEY COME-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Introducing fat, profane Detective Bertha Cool and her runty assistant Donald Lam. Slot-machine racketeers in a Southwestern locale, with a jackpot ending that turns on a neat legal trick...
GRANDMA CALLED IT CARNAL-Bertha Damon-Simon & Schuster...
...notwithstanding Grandma's hard-bitten highmindedness, Bertha Damon remembers her with affection as well as amazement. One of her most touching memories recalls how Grandma Griswold, then 96, apologized just before she died. She apologized for two things: 1) for having refused to let Bertha have pets and 2) for having all her life lacked will power...