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Editor Nycop hurried. Within 18 months the evening tabloid Expressen rocketed into the black, and it has since come to soothe Publisher Bonnier's nerves as the largest paper in all Scandinavia (circ. 370,000). Expressen is hale because it is hearty. Its formula: a smorgasbord of culture and sensationalism enlivened by flashy picture play and bellowing headlines. Last week, Expressen outdid itself, produced 600,000 copies of a 64-page issue, biggest in Scandinavian history...
Margaret's Secret Service guards, charged Stockholm's Expressen, have manhandled Swedish photographers and newsmen. Worse yet, one of them had "placed himself with a revolver at the [Stockholm] city hall gateway and refused to let Swedish citizens enter." The Yankee coppers, declared Swedish journals, were "gorillas," just "three tough guys with their left armpits bulging with artillery." The gravity of this last charge can be appreciated only if it is remembered that Swedes (like Britons) consider one of the keystones of their culture the fact that their police do not carry guns...
...Crimson invites all men in the University to submit signed communications of timely interest. It assumes no responsibility, however, for sentiments expressen under this head and reserves the right to exclude any whose publication would be palpably inappropriate...