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...dawn, it was necessary to kill 120 Norwegian soldiers before the rest got the point. Oslo, and other points of entry, were betrayed from within by their sworn defenders before the people knew what was happening. At far-north Narvik, Major Quisling's good friend Colonel Konrad Bertram Holm Sundlo, commanding officer, actually welcomed the invaders. At Oslo, when 20,000 troopers had been landed, and Nazi warplanes had appalled the population by incessantly roaring low over the rooftops, and 200 big Junkers 52s were shuttling over on schedule every half-hour, each bringing 20 more fully armed...
...right to sign Fran (Mrs.) before their maiden names; and promised to support children born out of wedlock whose fathers are killed in the war. Fortnight ago these encouragements finally brought a rebuke from the German clergy. In a pastoral letter to his Archdiocese of Breslau, Adolf Cardinal Bertram declared that adultery is still a sin and that "opinions and suggestions are being spread which are incompatible with obligations to preserve oneself clean and immaculate in bachelorhood...
...rich tropical land of rubber, oil, antimony, edible birds' nests and rhinoceroses, it has long been recognized that a two-fisted male ruler was needed to make the kingdom's famed headhunters toe the mark. Heir Presumptive to the Sarawak throne was Sir Charles's brother, Bertram. But Bertram is now 63, too old to assume new burdens. So Anthony Brooke, Bertram's 27-year-old son, was named Raja Muda (Crown Prince...
Died. J. (for Joshua) Bertram Lippincott, 82, urbane board chairman of J. P. Lippincott Co. (book publishers), famed for a handsome goatee and for being third Lippincott to be a Lippincott president; of a cerebral hemorrhage during pneumonia; in Philadelphia...
...Chicago a suit for separate maintenance disclosed a share-the-husband scheme which had worked temporarily. Introduced as evidence was a letter from Wife Mary Petersen to the other woman, Mrs. Caroline Bertram: "My husband is going to be home on his birthday. . . . If you want to come for coffee and cake it is all right with me. But remember, you are not playing fair with me when you keep him the nights he is supposed to be home. . . . Last night was my night and I was supposed to go with him to cash his check and shop. You took...