Word: bertrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Benjamin Bertram Kahane, 68, president of RKO studios from 1932 to 1936 and since then a vice president of Columbia Pictures, an ex-show-business lawyer who became a leading spokesman for the cinema industry in labor negotiations and its defender against charges of Communist infiltration, served as president the past two years of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
Wang has developed a new method of programming information for his two computers, affectionately known as "704" and "Stretch." Stretch, for example, solved the first 376 theorems of the Principla Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertram Russell, fed to it in code form, in nine minutes--it had taken Wang seven hours to code them...
...starts but thinks nothing of giving up the wheel if he feels his touch is off. Chick Larkin, a plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven prep school history teacher, are not only fine navigators but can also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator of a yacht basin in the Bahamas, are famed as helmsmen but are also skilled sail handlers. Mel Gutman, the boat's only hired hand, can tackle any job from cockpit to foredeck...
Even before this and other events in his daughters' lives had given him cause, David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, second Baron Redesdale ("Farve'' to his girls), had the reputation of being a slightly gaga aristocrat. Hitler took him seriously as a Fascist sympathizer, but few others took him seriously on anything. For one thing, he had made one of his rare but passionate speeches on the subject of limiting the powers of the House of Lords. He was against it - on the grounds that the proposals struck at the foundations of Christianity. He was also pretty savage...
...this week's show, Alphonse Moyse Jr., editor of Bridge World, defended a four-heart contract with Fellow Expert Bertram Lebhar, against Leonard B. Harmon and Ivar Stakgold. Before Moyse made his opening lead, Goren noted that Declarer Harmon was obviously down, announced that any orthodox lead would set the contract (four tricks: ace and queen of trumps, ace of spades, and a spade ruff by East...