The White Falcon - 08.04.1971, Blaðsíða 8

Sveinn Bjornsson
E-6 & below
Painter’s oils on exhibit
Sveinn Bjornsson, a prominent Hafnarfjordur detective and artist,
is exhibiting about 30 of his oil paintings this weekend in Keflavik.
His showing, on the top floor of Tjarnargata 3, begins today and
will continue through Monday. Hours of showing are between 4 and 10
p.m. daily. ----------------------------
Sveinn Bjornsson was born on
the Langanes Peninsula in 1925.
He began his artistic career in
1949 while serving as first mate
aboard an Icelandic trawler. His
first independent exhibition was
in Hafnarfjordur in 1952, and
since then he has had numerous
successful exhibitions in and out
of Iceland.
Sveinn Bjornsson studied art
in Copenhagen, Italy and Paris.
His paintings have frequently
been exhibited in the Censor Ex-
hibitions in Charlottenburgh,
Denmark, where only 200-300
paintings are chosen out of ap-
proximately 10,000 paintings sent
in from all over the world for
each exhibition, In 1970 two of
his paintings were exhibited in
the "Binalen II" show in Yugosla-
via, where art by well known art-
ists from 70 countries was being
exhibited.
Many of his paintings have
been bought by art museums in
Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland and the U.S.
Masons meet Monday
The Northern Lights Masonic
Club will hold its monthly dinner
meeting Monday at the 56 Club.
All Master Masons are invited
to attend the 7:30 p.m. meeting.
have new re-up
requiremen
Enlisted men in the Navy here
(E-6 and below) have new stand-
ards of reenlistment in the areas
of performance - trait averages,
that will become effective soon.
The new requirement is that
POls and below must now have a
3.0 average in each trait to be
eligible for reenlistment. For
men who have less than eight
years of service, this will be
effective July 1 of this year.
For those with more than eight
years' continuous service, the
effective date of the new policy
will be July 1, 1972.
The requirements for an honor-
able discharge remain the same:
a minimum of 2.7 average overall
with a minimum of 3.0 average for
military behavior.
Base Stars drop first
in Ambassdor Cup series
The Ambassador's Cup basketball series opened
at the NATO base last Sunday with the result much
the same as it has been since the inauguration of
the series.
The NATO All-Stars, who have never won the cup,
dropped a 91-81 decision to the Icelandic National
team.
The game was close at the beginning with the
teams exchanging one - point leads until midway
through the first half when Iceland opened an 11-
point lead. Score at the half was 45-38.
The Stars, behind the clutch shooting and re-
bounding of guard Doug Nelson, went to work on a
seven-point deficit at the start of the final half,
and eventually took a 56-55 lead.
Several minutes later, another lapse, similar to
the first half, put the base stars behind ten
points. Iceland used a blistering fast break at-
tack paced by Kolbeinn and Einar to open the game.
Ball handling made the difference. The smooth
moves and plays used by Iceland set up many easy
baskets, while the Stars struggled for most of
their points.
Doug was aggressive on both ends of the court,
drilling home field goals and winding up with 31
points to pace his team. Steve Buxton had 13 and
Herby Herbert added 10 more to the losing cause.
Another game was played Tuesday night, and the
series will conclude on the NATO base. No dat
has as yet been set for the finals.
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