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Swedish police arrested last week that courtier of King Gustaf V who has been nearest to the font of Swedish chivalry. The exalted prisoner, Baron Nils Stiernstedt, proved touchy. When his captors tried to question him he had a magnificent nervous breakdown. Swedish papers were so scared of the story that Swedes had to dig most details out of Danish papers...
...Font's Major K. K. V. Casey admitted that in 1925 40 tons of TNT shipped by du Pont to China left the U. S. in double containers, the outer marked "Explosives" according to U. S. Law. At sea, however, the outer containers were removed and the shipment eventually reached a war lord in Manchuria. "We had one put over on us," said Mr. Casey...
...Pont officials countered with the assertion that the patents transferred were no longer military secrets. Said Dr. Fin Sparre, du Font's research director: "For 10¢ anyone can get [from the Patent Office] copies of patents involved in our foreign transactions...
...total number of characters met with in the literature of the two countries amounts to some 25,000, but the great majority of these are only rarely met with. About 6,000 characters are really in common use. The quantity of individual characters in the font vary from 500 to 5, the average being about...
...other university in the country possesses a font of this type. By arrangement with the American Council of Learned Societies, which combined with the Institute to purchase this font, the characters from it may be employed in the publications of that body...