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...present problem is to regroup after the medical version of Hurricane Bertha," coach Bill McCurdy said before yesterday's meet, but the Harvard cross country team looked like Sherman's army going through Georgia as they ran past Brown...
...Bertha. Bulletins and magazines alert collectors to sales, trades and finds in the bottle market. Dubuque, Iowa's weekly Antique Trader, for example, regularly carries at least 15 pages devoted to the fad; a recent issue listed such hot items as Ezra Brooks' Big Bertha ($25), Beam's Gold Fox ($95), Dr. Seth Arnold's cough killer ($2), Dr. Fenner's Kidney & Backache Cure ($14) and a (misspelled) bottle of Kalamasoo heavy blob soda ($9.50). Of the moderns, Avon cologne and perfume bottles are most popular; an International Avon Collectors organization, headquartered in Mesa, Ariz...
...facts are that Mandrake was paying a very low rent. So was Bill Turtle. When Bertha Cohen was found dead in a whirlpool bath several years ago (S, I think) she left no will. The rents on her dilapidated buildings were frozen, and some people, like Bill Turtle, had some good luck. Bill, as you know, makes a pile of money by selling "antiques" to rich folk and junk to poor folk. This is fine and good, and he has prospered. Naturally, when Wasserman bought up the whole estate, normal rents began to come back. You thank your luck...
...Wasserman-Cambridge's largest real estate holder-acquired the Putnam Square site as part of the Bertha Cohen estate and upped Turtle's rent from $1300 to $17,000 per year...
...largest (and richest) developer in Cambridge is Max Wasserman of Wasserman Development Corporation, who recently acquired the immense $51/2 million Bertha Cohen estate. He has numerous holdings in Boston and in Harvard and Putnam Squares...