Word: berton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Berton Braley, 83, self-styled Manhattan "versifier" who unabashedly wrote for loot, not laurels, over the years turned out something like 11,000 items, ranging from light verse for magazines to Burma-Shave jingles, and once (1913) even covered the World Series in verse for United Press; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Braley insisted that he worked over the lowliest limerick "as though I were trying to write an epic," and, indeed, some were epics of their kind...
Separating Sinners. Last week the man from Oxnard was "talking it out" in a group psychotherapy session at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, where he is now confined. With him were eight other convicted felons and Psychologist Gerald Berton. Most striking was the fact that Psychologist Berton, in charge of the twice-weekly, one-hour session, had the least...