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The International who's who ; who's who in the world, incorporated with the International blue book … a biographical dictionary of the world's notable living men and women, 1910
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1d; debut in Aix-en-Provence 1957, in England, Glyndebourne 1958; has sung at La Scala, Milan, Opera Roma, Metropolitan, New York, Chicago Opera House, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, etc.; has appeared at festivals in Edinburgh, Holland, Glyndebourne; concerts in France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Scandinavia, Israel, Mexico, Buenos Aires, U.S.A., Canada, etc.; appeared as Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Covent Garden 1967; Premio Lucrezia Arana; Premio extraordinario del Conservatorio de Madrid; Grande Cruz, Isabel la Católica. Leisure interests: art, music, reading. Address: Gaztambide 26, Madrid 15, Spain. Telephone: 2336359.
3BERGEN, Candice Patricia; American actress and photo-journalist; b. 19 May 1946, Beverly Hills; d. of Edgar and Frances (née Westerman) Bergen; ed. Westlake School for Girls. Films include: The Group 1966, The Sand Pebbles 1966, The Day the Fish Came Out 1967, Vivre Pour Vivre 1967, The Magus 1968, Getting Straight 1970, Soldier Blue 1970, The Adventurers 1970, Carnal Knowledge 1971, The Hunting Party 1971, T. R. Baskin 1972, 11 Harrowhouse 1974, Bite the Bullet 1975, The Wind and the Lion 1976, The Domino Principle 1977, A Night Full of Rain 1977, Oliver's Story, 1978; photojournalist work has appeared in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Life and Esquire. Publication: The Freezer, (in Best Short Plays of 1968). Address: c/o CMA, 8899 Beverly Boulevard, Hollywood, Calif. 90008, U.S.A.
5BERGEN, William Benjamin, B.S., AERO.E.; American aerospace engineer and business executive; b. 29 March 1915; s. of Oldfield and Hazel Bergen; m. 1st Gertrude Catherine Coxon 1943, 2nd Eleanor Mae Page 1968; one s. one d.; ed. Mass. Inst. of Technology; Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore, Md. (now Martin Co.) 1937-; Chief Engineer 1949-51, Vice-Pres. Engineering 1951-53, Exec. Vice-Pres. 1953-55, Pres. 1959; Rockwell Int. (fmrly. North Amer. Rockwell) Pres. Space Div. 1967-70, Pres. Aerospace Operations 1971-, Corporate Vice-Pres. Aerospace 1974-; Dir. Calif. State Chamber of Commerce; mem. S.A.E., Holland Soc.; Fellow A.I.A.A.; Lawrence Sperry Award 1943. Leisure interests: flying, golf, hunting, tennis. Address: c/o Rockwell International, 1700 East Imperial Highway, El Segundo, Calif. 90245, U.S.A. Telephone: (213) 647-5552.
7BERGENSTRÖM, Stig Gullmar, LL.D.; Swedish administrator; b. 3 Dec. 1909, Cannes, France; m. Hélène Renfer 1958; one s. one d. and six c. from previous marriages; ed. Univ. of Uppsala; judiciary service at Court of Justice 1934-37; Sec.-Gen. Group of the Swedish Employers' Confed. 1937, Asst. Dir. 1941, Vice-Dir. 1944, Dir. 1949-; mem. Employers' Group of Governing Body of ILO 1950-; Vice-Pres. Exec. Cttee. of Int. Org. of Employers 1952-62, Pres. Exec. Cttee. 1963-; Chair. Int. Council of Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish Employers' Confederations; Vice-Chair. Governing Body ILO 1969-. Leisure interests: sailing, philately. Address: Swedish Employers' Confederation, S. Blasieholmshamn 4A, Stockholm; Box 16 120, 103/23 Stockholm, Sweden. Telephone: Stockholm 14-05-00.
9BERGER, Hans, DR. JUR.; German lawyer and diplomatist; b. 29 Oct. 1909, Cologne; ed. Cologne Univ. Assistant judge, Cologne 1937-39; Adviser to Commr. for Price-Control, Berlin 1939-44; Judge, Cologne 1945-47, Supreme Court of British Zone of Germany, Cologne 1948-49; Pres. Court, Düsseldorf 1949-53; Ministerial Dir. Ministry of the Interior, Bonn 1953-54; Head, Legal Dept., Foreign Office, Bonn 1954-59; Amb. to Denmark 1959-63, to Netherlands 1963-65; Sec. of State to the Pres. of the German Fed. Repub. 1965-69; Amb. to Holy See 1969-71. Address: 534 Bad Honnef, Austrasse 21, Federal Republic of Germany. Telephone: 02224 3432.
11BERGER, Samuel D., PH.B.; American diplomatist; b. 6 Dec. 1911, Cloversville, N.Y.; s. of Harry I. Berger and Bess Cohen; m. Elizabeth Lee Bonner 1969; ed. Univ. of Wisconsin and London School of Economics; served U.K. 1942-50; Special Asst. to Dir. for Mutual Security 1951-53; Counsellor Tokyo, Wellington (N.Z.), Athens 1953-61; Amb. to Repub. of Korea 1961-64; Deputy Commdt. Foreign Affairs, Nat. War Coll., Washington, D.C. 1964-65; Deputy Asst. Sec. of State for Far Eastern Affairs 1965-68; Deputy Amb. to Repub. of Viet-Nam 1968-72; Co-ordinator, Senior Seminar, Foreign Service Inst., Dept. of State, Wash. 1972-74; retd. 1975. Leisure interests: tennis, gardening. Address: 2911 33rd Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008, U.S.A.
13BERGER, Wilhelm Georg; Romanian composer and musicologist; b. 4 Dec. 1929, Rupea, Braşov; studied violin at Bucharest Conservatoire; member of Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra 1948-57; mem. Composers' Union Quartet 1953-57; Sec. Romanian Composers' Union; "Prince Rainier III of Monaco" Prize, Monte Carlo, 1964; Concours international de composition d'oeuvres pour quatuor à cordes Prize, Liège, 1965; "Reine Elisabeth de Belgique" Int. Musical Contest Prize 1966; "George Enescu" Prize of Romanian Acad. 1966; Composers' Union Prize 1969. Compositions: Eleven symphonies, chamber music (12 string quartets, sonatas, etc.). Publications: Studies: Moduri si proportii; Structuri sonore si aspectele lor armonice (Modes and proportions; Sonorous structures and their harmonic aspects), articles and lectures; Ghid pentru muzica instrumentală de cameră (Guidebook for instrumental chamber music) 1965; Muzica simfonică (Baroque-Classical 1967, Romantic 1972, Modern 1974, Contemporary 1976); Quartetul de coarde de la Haydn la Debussy (The string quartet from Haydn to Debussy) 1970. Address: Uniunea Compozitorilor, Calea Victoriei 141, Bucharest, Romania. Telephone: 50-30-90.
15BERGERON, André Louis; French printer and trade unionist; b. 1 Jan. 1922; Secretary-Gen. of Typographical Union, Belfort 1946-47; Force-Ouvrière 1947-48, Perm. Sec. Belfort Area 1948; Sec.-Gen. Fédération Force Ouvrière du Livre 1948-50; Regional Del. Force Ouvrière and mem. Exec. Cttee. 1950-56, mem. Bureau de la Confédération 1956-63, Sec.-Gen. Force Ouvrière 1963-. Address: Force Ouvrière, 198 avenue du Maine, Paris 14e, France. Telephone: 539-22-03.
17BERGESEN, d.y., Sigval; Norwegian shipowner; b. 27 April 1893; ed. Oslo Commercial Coll; joined firm Sigval Bergesen, Stavanger 1916; partner and Head, Shipowning Dept. 1918-35; established Sig. Bergesen d.y. & Co., Oslo and Stavanger (of which he is now Senior Partner) 1935; co-Dir. A. P. Møller, Copenhagen and Odense Staalskibsvarerft, Odense 1934-39; returned to Norway 1939; Chair. and Dir. Skibsaktieselskapet Snelfonn, Skipsaksjeselskapet Bergehus; Chair. of Board. Teknisk Bureau A/S, A/S Sigmalm, A/S Siganka; Commdr. Order of St. Olav, Commdr. Order of Dannebrog, Légion d'honneur, Médaille de l'Alliance Française, Les Palmes d'Officier de L'Instr. Publique (France), Knight's Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece), Royal Order of George I. Address: Bergehus, Drammensveien 106, Oslo (Office); Huk avenue 15, Bygdøy Oslo, Norway. (Home).
19BERGGOLTS, Olga Fyodorovna; Soviet author & poet; b. 1910 St. Petersburg; ed. Leningrad Univ. Corresp. Alma-Ata newspaper The Steppe 1930-31; spoke in factories, to units and on radio ships of Baltic Fleet 1941-45; Stalin Prizewinner. Publications: largely devoted to theme of Leningrad blockade include: February Diary 1942; A Poem of Leningrad 1942, Leningrad Diary 1941-44 1944, They Lived in Leningrad 1944, Your Path 1945, On Our Land 1947, Selected Works 1948, 1954, 1967, The First All-Russian 1950, Loyalty (poem) 1954, Lyrics 1955, Long Poems 1955, New Verse 1962, But He was Only a Soldier 1965; Leningrad Speaking 1964, Stars By Day 1964 (Memoirs); The Knot (novel) 1965, Memory (verse) 1972, Collected Works (3 vols.) 1972-73. Address: U.S.S.R. Union of Writers, Ulitsa Vorovskogo, 52, Moscow U.S.S.R.
21BERGGREN, Thommy; Swedish actor; b. 1937; ed. The Pickwick Club (private dramatic school), Atelieteatern, Stockholm, and Gothenburg Theatre; Gothenburg Theatre 1959-63; Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm 1963-; plays acted in include: Gengangaren (Ibsen) 1962, Romeo and Juliet 1962, Chembalo 1962, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1964. Films acted in include: Pärlemor 1961, Barnvagnen (The Pram) 1962, Kvarteret Korpen (Ravens End) 1963, En söndag i september (A Sunday in September) 1963, Karlek 65 (Love 65) 1965, Elvira Madigan 1967, The Black Palm Trees 1969, The Ballad of Joe Hill 1971. Address: c/o Svenska Filminstitutet, Kungsgatan 48, Stockholm C., Sweden.
23BERGHAUS, Ruth; German theatre director; b. 2 July 1927, Dresden; m. Paul Dessau (q.v.); choreographer of the Paluccaschule, Dresden, and the Theater der Freundschaft 1951-64; joined Berliner Ensemble 1964, Deputy Dir. 1970-71, Dir. 1971-; productions at Berliner Ensemble include Viet Nam Diskurs (Peter Weiss), Brecht's Im Dickicht der Städte 1971, Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar 1971, Omphale (Peter Hacks) 1972, Zement (Heiner Müller) 1973, Die Mutter 1974; also responsible for several productions at the State Opera, Berlin, including works by R. Strauss, Rossini, Weber and Dessau; mem. Berlin City Parliament 1971-; extraordinary mem. Deutsche Akad. der Künste. Address: Berliner Ensemble, Am Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 104 Berlin, German Democratic Republic.
25BERGLAND, Robert Selmer; American farmer and politician; b. 22 July 1928, Roseau, Minn.; s. of Selmer and Mabel (Evans) Bergland; m. Helen Grahm 1950; four s. two d.; ed. Univ. of Minnesota School of Agric.; representative of Minn. Farmers' Union 1948-50; farmer 1950-; Sec. Roseau County Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Minn. 1951-52, Chair. 1953-54; Chair. Minn. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Cttee.. 1961-63, Dir. of Service for Midwest 1963-68; mem. House of Reps. 1971-76, served House Agric. Cttee.; Agricultural Adviser to Senator W.
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