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John Wilmerding' contributes a short poem notable for its intricacy more than its beauty. Richard Sommer's work has neither of these qualities...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: The Advocate | 9/28/1961 | See Source »

...this month's Advocate deserve less space, perhaps, than their predecessors, but various exigencies force them to get even less space than they deserve. Louisa Newlin has written a competent and interesting story--quite a good story, actually--about two young couples on a Mediterranean island; and Richard Sommer has written a long Prothalemion of some mark, whose convolutions cannot be explored...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Advocate | 9/30/1960 | See Source »

...Spot of Cash." In time, he set up headquarters in Zurich, where an auburn-haired beauty-shop owner named Trudi Sommer, 29. was only too happy to have him share her apartment. She thought he was a Canadian test pilot named Johnny Bird. Then, one night last January, for reasons he was never quite able to explain, Hume wandered off to a church, where he drank up all the communion wine. Next morning, armed with a pistol, he turned up at a small branch of Zurich's Gewerbebank to help himself to "a spot of cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: The Slippery One | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...passport made out to "John Stephen Bird, company director, Liverpool." Thus equipped, Hume began appearing under various aliases in Montreal, Zurich, New York, Frankfort, Los Angeles, without ever being recognized. He spent most of the time in Switzerland, combining petty thievery with his courtship of auburn-haired Divorcee Trudi Sommer, 28, a Zurich beauty-shop owner. To lonely-hearted Trudi, Hume was Johnny Bird, a Canadian test pilot. At intervals, he would vanish mysteriously on "business trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hunted Man | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Married. Sheree North, 25, cooch alumna turned cinemactress; and Psychologist Gerhart Sommer, 30; both for the third time; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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