Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1951 — Page 8

Is Exhaust About Lynge,

By DONNA MIKELS BLOOMINGTON, June 10 ~—Name it and John Lynge has done it. * The versatile Indiana University student has packed enough activities and adventures into his 25 years to fill a book. As a matter of fact, some of the episodes have done just that. . John, who had his first book published at age 14, has written and had published six more, and currently has two more in the mill," The youth *who speaks 10 languages fluently and five more “enough to get by,” wrote four books in Danish, two in English

and now uses “half and half.”

~ He Croons, Too No cloistered bookworm, he has been everything from a deep sea diver to a night club croons er. He's n shot at and shot up from nis native Denmark to the jungles of Indo-China. He fought with the underground, with the British commandos at Dieppe and is one of the few hun- . {dred men to escape from dread Dachau by any way other than the chimney of the crematorium. In 1945, John was Denmark’s national champion 100-meter boxer, champion middle weight boxer, ‘second best shot-putter, single sculls champion of Copenhagen, Zeeland and Jutland, Scandinavian champion in 250 milimeter motorcycle racing, 8 member of the nation’s champion soccer and handball teams and winner of Denmark's internationally famous Roskilde cycle race.

An Easy Year That covers just one of John's 25 busy years, a year when he was just out of the hospital “taking it easy.” The sandy-haired Nordic’s swashbuckling career got its start in 1940 when the Germans occupied his hometown of Korsor, The first day the Nazi's “set an example” by marching 10 of the town’s young men into the square and shooting them. Two of the 10 were John's brothers. That day startéd the “under- "” of John and the boys in the village. For awhile they were “just an unorganized bunch of

organized and John left school to become a fulltime member. Once they delayed German reinforcements seven days. Another time, during later days of the war, John worked as a deep sea diver salvaging from sunken Ger-

NAM Sees No Shortage of

NEW YORK, June 9—A survey by the National Association

little fear about “uncontrollable pressure” on the cost of living, the NAM said.

year, TWO: will be plentiful. THREE: Clothing is in “adequate supply” and will be for the foreseeable future. FOUR: Housing has increased Sate than the population since a shortage in the near future.

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man craft by day and as a “frog man” attaching timed explosives to sink Nazi vessels by night.

Captured twice, he escaped from Dachau the first trip. The second time he got away in a fishing boat which was blown up by pursuing Nazis just as it reached “safe” Swedish waters. By then a “marked” man in his own country, he went to France and learned to play three musical instruments and to “croon” as a cover for resistance work. Later he became active in the work of publishing the illegal “resistance” newspaper. Information now one of Denmark's most powerful papers. After recovering from wounds which put him out of action just before the war's end, John went to the Far East and was wounded twice by Chinese guerillas. That sent him back to Denmark and back to the University of Copenhagen where he picked up the scholarships to Yale University summer session and to Indiana University.

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(wed during his Yale days pregented him with a new son, | Meanwhile, John working on two books, one a collection of American profiles and another on the life of a student in the U, 8., In his “spare time.”

Students Join

» French Society French students and Mrs. Gertrude Weathers _ at « Shortridge High School recently organized a chapter of Societe Honorarie de Francais. Elected to membership this year were seniors Pat Burkhead, Caroline Kahn, Sue Storer, Mar|garet MacCollum and Charlotte Colby; juniors, Carolyn Myers, Alice Jane Smith, Doris Lytle, Nancy Lynch and Stanley Malkemus; sophomores Lois Simon, Anne Ransdell, Helen Letsinger, Jane Mowrer, Robin Powell and John Shonle.

Lead Honor Roll

Barbara Bartlett, Carolyn Barnhart and James Burch led] the Ben Davis High School honor roll with 16% points for the third six weeks of the second semester.

States” from experiences as a resident of Skid Row, a member

of Brooklyn's kid gangs, work as a professional boxer, a car racer,

" |a steel worker, a coal miner, a

New York Daily Mirror reporter

during a lynching period. It's been published in three European countries and outsold his other books combined. At present John is leading a relatively inactive life. He carries 15 hours of graduate work toward a master's degree, holds down jobs which take 50 hours per week, writes for several U. 8.

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cles and papers in Denmark. His recently completed book of poetry is being fllustrated by IU coed Carol Mitchell, As of last week John took on another job, baby-sitting with his year-old son while the wife he

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had to be dead and miss all this,” he said. “Now I don't care what they do with me when I die. I've got myself fixed up real good. It will be a long time before this town forgets today, Jim Gernhart had himself a funeral.”

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Church of Kanorado, Kas., walked off with $100 in cash and the promise of an $8000 inheritance. “Not a penny of it for Burlinggloated Mr. Gernt, who spread his business around Kansas firms. “I told them I wouldn't be caught dead in this town and I'll be damned it I'll spend any money here alive. They can’t fight me and get away with it.” There was nobody fighting him today, despite -his claims that everyone in town has been “ag’in me” ever since he announced his pre-mortem funeral, A hundred people crowded the room and the yard of his small house, eating the. 12-course funeral dinner he had cooked himself, bringing him flowers and admiring his copper casket. ” » ” AT THE armory the 700 chairs he had set up were filled before

back of the hall while outside several others sat in their cars waiting to see the cortege wind up at the close of the services, Half of Burlington's 2000 people were there rubbing shoulders with sightseers from otHer parts of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas. “Haven't had a tourist attraction like this since 1936 when two fellows here in town made an election bet with the prize treats for everybody,” remarked Bill Hudler, veteran newspaperman who runs the Burlington Record. “They poured in then for free food and drinks just like they are pouring in today to bury a man who isn’t dead. A ‘man can live an awful long time without seeing anything like this again.” Straight - faced, the Rev. Mr. Mahaffey gave a brief resume of Mr. Gernhart’s life-——a homsteading family in Kansas, farming and

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- ” # “HE'S ALWAYS had a deep longing to help others—a longing that too many people never knew about because he wouldn't let recipients of his charity talk about it,” the preacher said. , He read the Bible passage dealing’ with the resurrection of Lagarus and assured the squirming congregation they would all live again after death, “Pray for this brother of ours,” he exhorted, pointing to the sober Mr. Gernhart, “that he will somehow draw closer to God in the years left to him and that he will think pilously of death and the resurrection.” As the minister warned with thin voice that barely reached the end of the hall that the worms will destroy all human bodies, Jim Gernhart looked into his beruffied expensive coffin with a shudder.

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"ONCE OR twice as the service droned on he brushed tears from his eyes then .rubbed vigorously at his bristly gray mustache. “Real, real nice,” he kept muttering. “Does a man good to see so many people out to bury him.” Services over, he supervised the carting of the copper casket to his basement where it will' lie until he needs it. “Almost makes me feel like it's time to get into it,” he said, running his hand fondly over its gleaming surface. “If I. did though, people around here would have reason to say I'm as carzy

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