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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husband, Bertram Gay, while in England. The couple moved to Somerville in 1968 because their child needed surgery that was only offered at Boston Children's Hospital...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mayor Dorothy Kelly Gay: Somerville's Lucky Charm | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...point, at least, in the finalstretch, Radcliffe floated the idea of taking overCabot House's Eliot and Bertram Halls (whichcurrently house 82 students) for future Instituteuse. After further discussion, they agreed theQuad would become Harvard College property afterall...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: How the Deal Was Done | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...Jeeves and Bertie Wooster did get on a first-name basis these days, Jeeves probably wouldn't call his employer Bertie, the diminutive of Bertram. That name is strictly Old Britain. He might call him Scott. According to a recent Washington Post article by Dan Balz, the Prime Minister's advisers asked a chef from Cambridge to cook for an English-French summit meeting and then asked if he could change his first name from Anton to Tony for the day, presumably because it sounds zippier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Sex, Please, We're British | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

None are adherents of Scientology. Many are Jewish, provoking lots of buzz over why they endorsed a high-decibel comparison with the Holocaust. Marcus and others say they oppose any religious persecution. Several say they signed out of respect for the letter's author, entertainment attorney Bertram Fields, whose client list happens to include Scientology's most prominent celebrities, Tom Cruise and John Travolta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD'S GLITTERATI CIRCLE THE WAGONS | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...female students were constrained by geographical separation and strict parietal rules. On certain evenings, however, women could be brought as guests to Harvard dining halls, and men could be brought as guests to Radcliffe dining halls. I remember vividly my first appearance as a guest at dinner in Bertram Hall. I think I was the only male guest that evening, and my host and I made a late entrance. She escorted me past endless rows of tables where young women sat in dignified silence waiting for dinner to begin, never once glancing in our direction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning the Material That Won't Be Tested | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

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