Leolaia,
:But most of all Carl Thornton (larc), without whom we wouldn't even know of the significance of Berta Peale.
God rest his soul. I'm not sure if I told you this, but one morning that many years ago I was on the phone with Carl and during the course of our conversation he mentioned Berta (his great aunt) and the crotchless panties and nipple-less bras she wore, and my jaw dropped. Then when he mentioned what she told her sister about Rutherford, and she in turn told Carl, my pants dropped! I told him he had a huge bombshell on his hands. (no pun.) He was startled and told me he didn't think the story was that significiant. I asked him if I could write it up, and forward my piece to him for review and fact-checking. He agreed, and as they say "the rest is History." Dirty, disgusting, hypocritical Watchtower history, that is.
Final note: I believe I'm correct in stating that not one claim I made in my thread based upon Carl's information was disproven throughout all the follow-up research you and others did.
Farkel