Word: birgit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walkuere, the audience cheered and the press groped for comparisons with "the irrecoverable magic" of Swedish-born Soprano Olive Fremstad.* Last week another Swedish Wagnerian soprano strode the Met's stage, and this time the comparison was to the "incomparable" Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met's Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century...
...harness race with Girl Friend Birgit Lundgren, he decided to back a long shot, was shortly rewarded with...
...auto race, officials bowed when he wanted to take Birgit for a spin in a Ferrari, blanched when he busted into a turn at 100 m.p.h., somehow skidded safely through...
...before returning to Goteborg to enjoy the biggest and loudest victory celebration ever given a homecoming Swede, he drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care of his secretarial requirements. Businessman Johansson's view of any future bouts: he will fight "anywhere-as long as there are enough people...
Whooping Swedes swarmed toward Johansson, Birgit sobbed prettily at ringside, and in Sweden happy millions poured into the streets to pour victory toasts of aquavit by the dawn's early light. For Johansson, the victory was especially sweet: it erased forever the disgrace he suffered at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki when he was disqualified in the heavyweight finals for "not trying." More important, Johansson needed no manager to tell him the value of the world's richest boxing title-or how to exploit it. The son of a stonecutter, he was a gifted street brawler...