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Bertha Klausner, Literary agent

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19980102
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Bertha Klaus ner, a literary agent who had Upton Sinclair and Eleanor Roosevelt among her clients during a seven-decade career, died Monday of complications from a stroke. She was 96.

Until her illness two months ago, she headed the Bertha Klausner International Literary Agency.

Her client list also had included Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., novelist Israel J. Singer, Jewish activist Meir Kahane and actor Basil Rathbone.

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