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Enter Connors, one of the hottest amateurs, winner of the national collegiate singles championship as a freshman at U.C.L.A. Riordan was recommended to Connors by Jimmy's grandmother, Bertha Thompson, herself a former pro, and Connors quickly signed to play professionally for him. "I told Jimmy," recalls Riordan, "if you want to be No. 2 in one of the W.C.T. groups, you'll be a nonentity. But if you want to be the best-known tennis player in the world, come with me." Connors says he felt he would get more experience on the less glamorous tour because "I wouldn...
...After 21 years with Taplinger, Inc., a public relations firm, Bertha Kelly, 50, was making $20,000 a year as vice president in charge of West Coast operations. When Taplinger merged with Rogers, Cowan & Brenner, Kelly was dismissed without severance. "I've had to learn to avoid all extravagance," she says. "In fact, I'm just scratching along." Her job prospects...
Harvard stayed relatively helpless to get in on the city power and development game constantly stymied by people like Crane and Bertha Cohen, a reclusive, eccentric land-owner...
...Bertha Cohen died in 1965, leaving no will and few close relatives. A distant nephew was named executor of the estate after a five-year court battle and he quickly disposed of the property on the open market. Harvard and developer Max Wasserman, a close friend and high school chum of Eddie Crane's, both bid on the property, with Wasserman coming out the winner...
...over the books under a 15 watt lightbulb, says Dean Whitlock, then assistant to Pusey for community and government affairs. When Pusey sent Whitlock to ask Cohen if Harvard could have a strip of land on Mt. Auburn Street where Tommy's and Cahaly's are now for a Bertha Cohen Memorial Park when the elderly widow died, Whitlock recalls "She cursed me out and told me that the last thing she wanted was a park named...