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...still important to the New Guard, for whom a listing is almost the only way left to know one is better than one's neighbors. Those who are knocking at the Register's door no longer have to contend with the studied inconsistencies of Bertha Eastmond, the train conductor's daughter who presided over the contents of the little black and orange book for nearly 40 years until her death in 1960. But the mysterious tribunal that sits in judgment in her stead is still impossible to outguess-even in terms of getting one's listing...
...catastrophe of Pearl Harbor, the Army commemorated the day, with the same flag which had survived it. The Navy, which had suffered a great deal more, ignored the anniversary of the Japanese attack. Explained a spokesman: "We want to forget-not remember." *The ultimate arbiter is one Bertha K. Eastmond, a socially unknown, and determinedly anonymous woman in her 60s, who lives in seclusion in Summit, N.J. She started as secretary to Louis Keller, the Register's founder, who hired her because "she could spell and get yacht names right...
...Eastmond, Columbia...
...Gymnastic Association the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, E. K. Eliason, Yale; vice-president, J. P. Jones '02; secretary, E. T. Junior, Haverford; treasurer, John Aiken, Princeton; executive committee, E. L. Ketzenbach, Princeton; E. L. Eliason, Yale; R. H. Belcher, New York University, and C. Eastmond of Columbia...
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