Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lfur Bjarnason the Strong and Svenn Thórarinsson who was a procurator and royal farm manager in 1857. When a son was born to Svenn Thórarinsson, he named the babe Jon Svensson. But Jon's mother nicknamed her child "Nonni," and when the boy grew up he popularized that name in Europe in many a book about himself. Spry at 79, "Nonni" Svensson, S.J. turned up at Fordham University last week, willingly rehearsed his story for the Press. "Nonni" did not live long on the Icelandic farm of his birth...
...became clear. Thereafter he adopts an impersonal tone, discourses on the duties of Federal agents, gives an unilluminating sketch of his own background, discusses the habits of gangsters and the weakness of law enforcement, retells the stories of the Factor, Bremer, Urschel and Robinson kidnappings, the deaths of Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. Best parts of American Agent are its thumbnail biographies of public enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed as a wealthy oilman and joined exclusive clubs; George...
Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and forth across the Atlantic. He survived, studied navigation, became a mate and did a little kicking and cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed...
UNDER ONE ROOF-Ruth Eleanor McKee-Doubleday, Doran ($2). One reasonably peaceful Thanksgiving Day in a Los Angeles family composed of parents, a neurotic librarian, a teacher with heart trouble, a grass widow, a college girl, a high-school boy, an automobile salesman...
...long a favorite with Harvard men, thinks the new parietal rule is "all right". When questioned, she expressed surprise to learn that young ladles are ever permitted in the dormitories. Rather non-committal, all she said on that particular subject was "Girls ought never to be allowed in a boy's room without a chaperon. If a couple want to be alone . . . well . . . there's a time and place for everything...