Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midfield picture remains complex with Jerry Cotter suffering from an injured shoulder and Charlie Devens from a pinched nerve. Karl Bjork, Dick Parks and Dave Birch comprise the healthy first-midfield, with Manuel Cabral and John Gould the healthy second midfielders. The third line of Tag Edwards, Mike Rockefeller and Larry Connell may be moved up to second midfield, since they have been playing together for most of the season...
Redivorced. By Marie ("The Body") McDonald, thirtyish, cinemactress whose widely disbelieved abduction attracted publicity last year: Harry Karl, fortyish, shoe manufacturer; after two marriages (1947-54 and since June 1955), three children (two adopted); in San Fernando, Calif...
...STARS GROW PALE (310 pp.)-Karl Bjarnhof-Knopf...
...test of a writer is whether he can find words for the things that are too terrible for words. Denmark's Karl Bjarnhof, 60, passes the test brilliantly in The Stars Grow Pale, the sensitive story of a boy slowly going blind. In Author Bjarnhof's hands, a theme that might have been merely harrowing or touching takes on the larger complexities of a boy's awakening sensibilities in a small provincial town amid a home life both flintily pious and grindingly poor. What brands the young hero's soul is not the iron of personal...
...fictionalized memoir from an author who is himself blind. Between the ages of 17 and 19, Novelist Bjarnhof lost his sight, subsequently toured as a concert cellist and became one of Denmark's leading men of letters. Active as an essayist, newspaper editor and radio interviewer, Karl Bjarnhof has published seven novels. Stars, which appeared in Denmark in 1956 and has since been translated into six languages, is the sixth. It is a measure of Author Bjarnhof's rigorously won success that he makes his hero's tormented saga exalting without heroics or organ tones-or taking...