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Died. Dr. Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe, 91, frail, spade-bearded Swedish physician (onetime patients: Sweden's King Gustaf V and Queen Victoria) who sought a cure for his insomnia by writing a book which turned out to be the internationally best-selling The Story of San Michele (named for his house on the Isle of Capri); in Stockholm's Royal Palace, where he had been a house guest since 1943. Munthe's gossipy autobiography earned $500,000, which he gave to charity for the establishment of wildlife refuges and a bird sanctuary on his beloved Capri...
...September 1941, more than a year after the occupation of Norway, Editor in Chief Fredrik Ramm wrote a little essay for his Oslo Morgenbladet...
...Royalty. In Sweden, where the tradition of democracy is more than 500 years old, even the royal houses, like the Swedish forests, labor-employer relations, cooperatives, cheese factories and representative government, must be well run. In this orderly pattern Sweden's Crown Prince and Duke of Skone, Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, has found his niche...
Goldbugs have a new prospecting tool: the horsetail weed (Equisetum arvense) which grows abundantly across the U. S. and Canada. When it grows in soil with a gold content, it hungrily absorbs the metal. Last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg of Toronto told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that for some time Canadian prospectors had been locating gold by burning a clump of horsetail, analyzing the ashes...
...Manhattan last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg told how he had made a complete magnetic survey of the whole Meteor Crater area. Mr. Lundberg is president of his own company in Toronto, but he is working at present for someone else, who prefers to remain anonymous. Using sensitive variometers (containing magnetic needles responding to large masses of metal), he went over the ground, made a "magnetic profile." This showed two humps several hundred feet southwest of the rim, the larger covering an area 2,000 by 1,500 ft. He believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps...