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Spent Cascade. Heart for the Gods is virtually impenetrable itself, although the plot is simple. A young woman learns that she has a heart condition that will kill her within six months. She confides in her old friend Blomberg (a thinly disguised portrait of Aiken himself) and explains that, in the short time left, she wants to go to Mexico to get a divorce from her estranged husband and to marry the man who has loved her for years. Blomberg, the woman and her intended husband travel by day coach from Boston to Mexico City. The night after they...
...opening day last week, stocky Builder Oddstad watched the children streaming into his school with obvious delight. "This is the thing to do," said he. "It's up to builders to take the initiative." Near by, under the school's breezeway, Mrs. Robert Blomberg finally broke away from her weeping five-year-old daughter Kathlene. Said Mrs. Blomberg: "She's been dreaming of nothing but school for weeks. Now all she can say is, 'I want to go home.' " An hour later, tears dry, Kathlene was happily drawing her first picture in kindergarten. An unorthodox...
Postscript. In Los Angeles, after giving a talk to the Optimist Club on "How To Train Your Memory," Sigmund Blomberg shook hands all around and departed, leaving his hat behind...
Visiting Firemen. In Syracuse, N.Y., John F. Blomberg and William S. Klinke of Central Islip, N.Y., delegates to the State Volunteer Firemen's Association convention, pleaded guilty to a charge of turning in a false fire alarm...
...stern Editor Blomberg refused to veer an inch from the figures given him by the tax bureau (at a cost of 2? apiece). "It's just as hard to get into this book if you don't qualify," he said, "as it is to get out if you do." Blomberg himself was listed at $7,000 per annum, well below Stockholm's No. 1 earner, Banker Jacob Wallenberg ($170,000), but close to Prime Minister Tage Erlander...