Word: bertil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Helping some 3,000,000 Minnesotans celebrate their statehood centennial last week were Norway's comely Princess Astrid, daughter of King Olav V, and Sweden's Prince Bertil, third son of King Gustaf VI Adolf. Earlier, the royal junketeers, who looked none the worse for the four-day hullabaloo, had found time for New York shopping and lunch in Washington with President Eisenhower and Mamie. But Bertil, who arrived in the U.S. two days earlier than Astrid, had one regret: no time for golf...
Lars Gullin: Baritone Sax (Atlantic). Seven pulsingly rhythmic interpretations of old favorites (Summertime, A Foggy Day) and new numbers (Fedja, composed by rising Swedish Jazzman Gullin himself). The numbers get a lift from the free-swinging drumming of Nils-Bertil Dahlander (known as Bert Dale when he toured the U.S.), generally show Swedish jazz to be as cool as iced aquavit...
Then the Bible teacher appealed to the government itself, protesting indignantly that "in this school, sexual relations between pupils are entirely consistent with the highest conduct marks." A fortnight ago, at a formal Cabinet meeting presided over by Prince Bertil, son of King Gustaf VI Adolf, the government formally backed the school principal over the Bible teacher...
Winning the international race against Finland a fortnight ago, Swedish Forestry Supervisor Bertil Norman made few mistakes, ran himself ragged and covered the course in two hr. 16 min. 37 sec. Last week, running over a different course in the Swedish national championships, Norman lost 20 minutes searching for the third control point, and wound up 115th in a field of 157. The winner: 27-year-old Engineer Nils Lange, who finished 99th in last year's championships...
...cabin behind were 15 ministers -chaplains of the Civil Air Patrol bound from Burbank, Calif, to a convention in Sacramento. When the word to hit the silk came back to them, Major Bertil Von Norman, pastor of the West Hollywood Presbyterian Church and chaplain of the wing, called for prayer, and the heads bowed in silence. "Thy will be done . . . Thy will be done . . ." prayed Chaplain Von Norman to himself. Two minutes later, while the burning plane banked, he stood at the open door and began sending the sky pilots off into the air, one by one, with a slap...