Word: sigurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the time came to elect a king, the boes looked to their professional ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...
...Arnold Sigurd Kirkeby (rhymes with irk-a-bee), 44, breakfasted early at Manhattan's tony Hampshire House, which he owns. After breakfast he slowly smoked his way through two fat, black Rey Del Mundo cigars. Then he was ready for battle...
...Navy Lieut. John Andrew Roth, 26, onetime Amerasia researcher, recently in the Office of Naval Intelligence. Cf Emmanuel Sigurd Larsen, 47, specialist in the State Department's China Division...
Although many composers gave it a try, the saxophone's voice always seemed too brash for the other reeds, too reedy for the brasses. Sigurd Rascher, a clarinetist in his youth, switched to the saxophone when someone told him it was easier and paid better. "It is not true that it is easier," he says now, "but by the time I discovered this it was too late...
Concerts are all very well, but where Sigurd Rascher really likes to play the saxophone is in a Swedish forest, in midwinter. "You should hear!" says he. When the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, after having given 3,542 sax-less concerts, broke down and hired him for an appearance in November 1939 he yearned to practice in Central Park, was dissuaded. He settled for an unheated apartment. Says he: "When my hands turn blue, I like it best...