Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Selected Writings will "give readers a chance to assess Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...
Married. Lala Andersen, 45, Swedish-born idol of Berlin cabarets and popularizer of Lili Marlene, the nostalgic song ; which haunted Montgomery's "Desert Rats" and Rommel's Afrika Korps (the British claimed the melody as victor's booty); and Arthur ("Thury") Beul, 34, Swiss tunesmith; she for the second time; in Zollikon, Switzerland...
Margrethe proved a natural radio speaker. Last Christmas, she volunteered, she and seven friends had performed a playlet from Andersen's fairytale, The Princess and the Swineherd...
...came to admire the natives' simple, tight-webbed community which, unlike modern civilization, gave each of its members a secure place; yet he also had to admit that this simplified life would soon make him restless. So he left the natives and went to live with Andrew Andersen, a white planter who had remained on the island even after the Japs had set up a garrison on its other side...
...Andersen was the kind of man "who always chose that another might die so that he might live." When the Japs came, he cooperated; when Brunner came, he was kind to him. In him, Brunner came to see what he too might become if he stayed on. Andersen had a daughter; she was very beautiful and the next 15 pages are very predictable. When an American advance party hit the island to prepare for an invasion, Brunner joined the troops...