Word: dejong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVEN-David Cornel Dejong- Houghton Mifflin...
Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk...
Score: Harvard 6. Pennsylvania 3 Twosomes: Melville F. Heath Jr. '34 defeated Ferguson (P), 7 and 6; Cross (P) defeated Francis S. North '36, 1 up; Robert C. Hunter, Jr. '36 defeated Wyles (P), 3 and 3; William E. Sibley, III '35 defeated Biggar (P), 2 up; Dejong (P) defeated Mausfiel Brantgan'36 4 and 2; Melvin F. Hill, Jr. '36 defeated Weihumayer (P), 2 and 1. Foursomes: Heath and North defeated Ferguson and Cross. 5 and 4; Hunter and Sibley defeated Wyles and Riggar 3 and 3, Defong and Wethumayer defeated Brantgan and Hill...
...first novel of David C. DeJong, author of many short stories, will be published this month, under the title of "Belly Fulla Straw." It is the story of a Dutch immigrant family in a small city in the Middle West...
BELLY FULLA STRAW-David Cornel Dejong-Knopf ($2.50). Earnest, heavy tale of the Americanization of a Dutch family...