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...Axel Wenner-Gren, one of the world's richest men, stretched his long legs in the lower-deck lounge of a New York-to-Nassau Stratocruiser last week and reflected with satisfaction on the progress of his newest enterprise. In his 73 years, Wenner-Gren has made fortunes in Electrolux vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Bofors antiaircraft guns and Mexican telephones. But of late, his major interest has been building a fabulous tropical resort worthy of the monocled titles and Palm Beach socialites that Swedish-born Wenner-Gren (who started his career at 15? an hour in a New Jersey...
When a student, whose account was $20 in the red, came into the Cambridge Trust Company to withdraw $20,head teller Axel A. Lindberg explained to him that the letters "OD" on his bank statement stood for "overdrawn," and not "on deposit." Until this fall, after 42 years with Cambridge, and now in a part-time job with Reliance Cooperative Bank, Lindberg has continued to administer such service with a properly reserved grin...
...held by small Swedish investors (and 508 Americans), but working control of the line, which runs 24 ships, belongs to Sweden's Broström Lines, one of the world's ten biggest (694,483 tons) shippers. The combine was started in 1865 when 27-year-old Axel Broström borrowed money to buy a wooden trading ketch, Mathilda. Last week Axel's grandson and SAL's board chairman, Tor Erland Broström, stood on the Kungsholm's glassed-in decks and beamed as New York harbor saluted Mathilda's youngest descendant...
...centuries, dreamers as disparate In time and temperament as Rome's Emperor Augustus and Sweden's Author-Doctor Axel Munthe found Italy's idyllic Isle of Capri a perfect spot in which to get away from it all. Augustus' misanthropic successor Tiberius found the island's solitude so inspiring that he often invited tedious friends out to the imperial villa for the weekend, only to push them off a cliff as soon as they arrived. The only thing Capri lacked was a supply of fresh water. Rain water, collected in cisterns, had to suffice Augustus...
...built his postwar empire on the small book publishing house owned by his father, which had also published a small Hamburg paper during the Nazi regime. The Nazis closed it down, but otherwise bothered the Springers so little that they went right on publishing technical and scientific books. Axel himself even wangled a medical exemption that kept him out of the army, continued working at book publishing and printing throughout...