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Globe-trotting Swedish Tycoon Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren went into economic and diplomatic eclipse 18 months ago when the U.S. and Britain black-listed him and his fabulous array of world enterprises (TIME, June 29, 1942). Last week, on an hacienda outside Mexico City, Hermann Göring's onetime friend was busy with earthy new interests. He was experimenting with the breeding and raising of hogs, poultry, sheep and dairy cattle-still with a pale blue, acquisitive eye on postwar opportunities. True to Wenner-Gren tradition, he bought not one hacienda but a half dozen...
Between chores, pink-faced, white-thatched Axel commuted 45 miles to Cuernavaca to supervise construction of a 25-room house on 250 acres looking across the lush sugar-cane fields to the hills of Taxco. It was said that he planned to give the estate to the Government as a holiday retreat for its Presidents...
Under Minister of Civilian Supply Axel Gjöres, a former director of Sweden's Cooperative Union, claiming 750,000 consumer families as members, the Swedes run their wartime economy with regulations and ration books. Black markets are controlled through vigorous prosecution. Mounting defense expenditures ($507,500,000 in 1942-43 from 6,400,000 population) are partly met through almost confiscatory taxes in the higher brackets. Rationing covers everything from clothes to tennis balls and all foods except fish (which is too perishable) and fresh vegetables. Laborers doing heavy work and the children of the poor receive extra...
Heiress Marjorie Gould Drexel Gundry, 27, great-granddaughter of Jay Gould, daughter of Philadelphia's Main Line Anthony J. Drexels, offered no defense against charges that she had stolen a yacht captain from his wife, who thus won a suit for alienation of affections. Mrs. Axel Julius Danielson, wife of the yacht captain, who worked for Mrs. Gundry, asked $100,000 damages...
...using nearly all his quota of paper for them; he added that he had sold 5,000 copies of Dragon's Teeth in Glasgow, and that, knowing the citizens, he considered phenomenal. World's End has been out for a year in Sweden, and the publisher, Axel Holmstrom, has just airmailed me a bunch of clippings, all expressing delight with the book. My American publisher, Ben Huebsch, writes me: "Those Swedish reviews are excellent, coming from a people who are not demonstrative and who take their literature seriously...