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...with paintings and furniture and bric-a-brac and candles, candles everywhere, it invites the children who live in it to become adventurers into its secrets. The mansion broods over a quiet Swedish town, in the winter of 1907, and it is the place where ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his younger sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and their parents and grandmother, the Ekdahls, reside. But with a leap of film fancy it becomes the house that Bergman built: an edifice constructed of 40 films in nearly 40 years, and filled with ghosts and demons, strong women and tortured...
...real and Graustarkian dignitaries who attended her funeral were Nancy Reagan, French President François Mitterrand's wife Danielle, Ireland's President Patrick Hillery, Gary Grant, Frank Sinatra's wife Barbara, Film Mogul Sam Spiegel, Racing Driver Jackie Stewart, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Bertil of Sweden, Princess Benedikta of Denmark, Don Juan de Bourbon, father of Spain's King Juan-Carlos, Holland's Prince Bernhard, Grand Duchess Josephine of Luxembourg, Michael, former King of Rumania, Frederika, former Queen of Greece, and Prince Henri, pretender to the French throne. -ByJohnSkow...
...following morning, Fisherman Bertil Sturkman got a rude surprise. Rowing his dory past Little Horse Island, a rocky nodule in the Blekinge cluster 330 miles south of Stockholm, he sighted a 250-ft. Soviet "Whiskey"-class patrol submarine, No. 137, hard aground about 10 yds. offshore. Sturkman rowed on to deliver news of his find, and thus began an international fuss worthy of the 1966 comedy film The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming...
...DIED. Bertil Ohlin, 80, Swedish politician and economist who shared, with England's James E. Meade, the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics; in northern Sweden. At 25, the handsome, precocious Ohlin was a full professor at the University of Copenhagen and an expert in international trade. A practitioner as well as a theorist, Ohlin was Sweden's Trade Minister in a wartime coalition government (1944-45). Chief of the Liberal Party from 1944 to 1967, he waged a lifelong battle to check the growth of socialization in Sweden...
BORN. To Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, 33, and his German-born wife Queen Silvia, 35; their first son, second child; in Stockholm. Name: Carl Philip Edmund Bertil, Duke of Värmland...