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...everyone to let me be a normal girl again," said Piccadolly Christine Keeler, 22, last December as she marched off to London's Holloway Prison to serve nine months for perjury in the trial of one of her lovers, Aloysius ("Lucky") Gordon. But six months of playing Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl, making blouses in prison, have given the past mistress of art photography notions of graduating to Vistavision. Out of quod last week, three months early for "good behavior," Christine announced, "I'd like to go into films. I know I've no experience...
...Bertha Haas, 68, a Bronx widow, spent an evening with an elderly woman friend at the Avalon Ballroom, a kind of senior citizens' dance hall on Broadway that forbids liquor and jitterbugging, caters to older people looking for gentle companionship. Later, Mrs. Haas and her friend stopped at a cafeteria for a cup of tea and a bit of cheesecake, then took the subway to The Bronx and separated. Mrs. Haas walked home. Next morning a porter in Mrs. Haas's apartment building saw blood on the lobby floor. He followed a trail of bloody streaks...
...BERTHA L. HOXTER Philadelphia
...investment of some $250,000 is that it was designed to be run without a maid. "With all those double-duty rooms," says Planner Pereira, "I thought we could each pitch in and do the minimum cleanup work that's needed." He thought wrong. The maid's name is Bertha...
...belongs." It is still important to the New Guard, for whom a listing is almost the only way left to know one is better than one's neighbors. Those who are knocking at the Register's door no longer have to contend with the studied inconsistencies of Bertha Eastmond, the train conductor's daughter who presided over the contents of the little black and orange book for nearly 40 years until her death in 1960. But the mysterious tribunal that sits in judgment in her stead is still impossible to outguess-even in terms of getting...