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King loves redhead, vacates throne; Man bites dog and buries bone...
Part ancient Irish saga, part blarney, Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws...
...Sawdust. After six weeks of testimony concerning the stupidity and naivete of German spies in the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 14), the No. 1 espionage trial of recent times ended in Manhattan. Convicted by a Federal jury were: Johanna Hofmann, 27, a Dresden redhead who roamed the world as a hairdresser on German ships, wound up carrying spies' messages on the liner Europa; Otto Hermann Voss, 39, an airplane factory mechanic who turned in much junk and one set of valuable pursuit-plane plans to the Nazi intelligence service; ex-Private Erich Glaser...
...half loves-found Mickey Rooney yesterday at the University, and will continue to find him through Saturday. In this most popular if not the most skillfully made of the Hardy Family series, Mickey Rooney undergoes parallel love affairs with Polly, the true love, and Cynthia, a cooperative redhead at the same time humoring Judy Garland, who is there only to sing. If his facial contortions add up to something less than good acting, Mr. Rooney is nevertheless very funny; and although the Hardy pictures are starting to lose their simplicity and naturalness the lines are still good and the whole...
...their blackmail trips here, the girls approached other students with the apparent purpose of luring them to the apartment as future racked victims. The two girls who made the tripe are young and good looking, police said, one being a blonde and the other a redhead...