Word: aksel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social event of Palm Beach's 1939 season** to date has been the swank Everglades Club's Circus Ball. Preceding it, socialites of various shades paraded down Worth Avenue. Mrs. Aksel C. P. Wichfeld (Fifi Widener), insufficiently disguised as Sabu, led a real elephant on a leash. Polo players Winston Guest and George J. Atwell Jr., in pigsticking regalia, chased pigs, pretending they were boars. Society Songstress Adelaide Moffett Brooks impersonated Miss Palm Beach of 1939, followed by a Seminole Indian representing 1539, a chimpanzee representing A.D. 39. Evalyn Walsh McLean, as usual, wore the Hope Diamond. Jimmie...
HORNS FOR OUR ADORXMEXT-Aksel Sandemose-Knopf...
...sailor and lumberjack. Aksel Sandemose is a 39-year-old Danish novelist who has been acclaimed and anathematized in much the same terms as James Joyce, Celine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka. Like them, he follows a realism that is epic and allegorical rather than photographic. Two years ago Sandemose was introduced to U. S. readers with a powerful, puzzling story called A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. Acknowledging Sandemose's originality, critics called him less original than Joyce, less obscure than Kafka and Rilke, less cynical than Celine...
...FUGITIVE CROSSES HIS TRACKS- Aksel Sandemose-Knopf ($2.50). Aksel...
Married. Josephine ("Fifi") Widener Leidy Holden, two-time divorced daughter of Philadelphia's rich Joseph E. Widener; and Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, onetime minor Danish legate to the U. S.; in Reno, Nev., a few hours after the groom's divorce from Mabelle, a relative of Chicago's Swifts...