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...House Divided. In Montgomery, Ala., Henry and Bertha Williams separated as they had agreed to: he tore down his half of the house and carted it away...
...house, which will open for its first occupants when the Class of 1952 arrives next fall, reverted to the college after the death of the owner, Miss Bertha Vaughn. Radcliffe purchased the house several years ago, guaranteeing Miss Vaughn a life interest...
...night, when Bowland was away, 18 hooded Klan bullies set up a fiery cross in front of his house. Bowland's pretty wife, Bertha, who is pregnant, came out, kicked the burning brand over, and shouted at the gang: "Get out, you yellow cowards!" Ten days later Bowland came home after a basketball game and found his wife crouched behind a hedge, a shotgun at the ready, while another gang-unhooded this time-milled about the house...
Police identified the woman as Bertha Walt, a pretty young Zurich office worker. The night before she had carried some bread away from the dinner table, and apparently went to the zoo to feed Chang. There was a keeper's door in the wall at the back of the elephant pit through which she could have entered. To a friend she had said: "I often find animals kinder than people...
...flat face was that of a Sunday school teacher lost in a gin mill and primed to bawl out the customers. Seconds later, her ample hips bouncing, her abdomen lewdly rolling, she was shouting the blues at the top of her voice. Last week, after a 17-year absence, Bertha ("Chippie") Hill was back at her old trade. To Manhattan's smoke-filled Village Vanguard, deep in a Greenwich Village cellar, her name had drawn a record opening-night crowd which egged Chippie on with wild applause after each number and plied her with shots of straight gin after...