Word: arvid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erma's 36-ft. hull, to install an old marine engine, and equip her with sails and stores. The Erma was small but she was seaworthy. And the leader of the expedition, tough, blue-eyed Harri Pahlberg, was a master mariner. So was the first mate, leathery Arvid Kuun...
...Death. The Saddle & Sirloin Club was founded in 1901, to extend recognition to men who had made outstanding contributions to the livestock industry. Recognition, the founders decided, should take the form of a portrait of each member. The original portrait artist was James R. Stuart. He was followed by Arvid Nieholm. Most of their portraits were destroyed in the stockyards fire of 1934, and Robert Grafton was commissioned to redo the lost canvases. After completing 100 portraits in two years, Artist Grafton dropped dead. Saddle & Sirloin's current portraitist is Othmar Hoffler. He has been at it for seven...
BEHIND THE STEEL WALL-Arvid Fredborg-Viking...
...Arvid Fredborg is a young Swedish journalist who represented Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet in Berlin from February 1941, to the end of May 1943. Behind the Steel Wall was written from private notes just after the author had quit the Third Reich following a series of discreet warnings from his friends. His book, in easy, gossipy pages, presents the most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into...
Swedish Correspondent Arvid Fredborg, who emerged last May after two years in Germany, testified to the quality of the 1943 Wehrmacht in his book published in Stockholm last week. His conclusion: The German Army represents a powerful fighting force; while its spirit has grown worse, its discipline is undiminished...