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...defeated favored Veikko Karvonen of Finland, who finished second, and Sweden's Kari Gosta Leandersson, who placed third. In fourth place was Katsuo Nishida of Japan, and Johnny Kelley of Boston University, in fifth place, was the top American on the 26-mile course...
...usual, its appearance brought a blizzard of complaints howling down upon Editor Gosta Blomberg and the offices of Sweden's tax collectors. Thousands of outraged taxpayers complained of being undercharged and hence deprived of a listing among the aristocracy of the higher brackets. Others, equally outraged, swore that they had never made that kind of money in their lives. One distressed soul had even quietly tried to bribe Editor Blomberg into leaving his name out of the register. If his wife learned his real income, pleaded the unhappy taxpayer, it would cost him at least a new mink coat...
Died. Selma Lagerlof, 81, novelist (Gosta Berling, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The General's Ring) and grand old lady of Swedish letters; of peritonitis; in Marbacka, Sweden. First woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy, she last January gave her gold Nobel medal (intrinsic value about $500) to the Swedish national collection for Finland...
FATHERLAND FAREWELL!-Gosta Larsson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Solid novel about Swedish working-class life before the War, centring on the great emigration to the U. S. Its well-studied hero is an ambitious young engineer who struggles against his lower-class destiny, tries unsuccessfully to escape...
...reasoned Drs. Kenneth Cooley of Rochester and Kristian Gosta Hansson of Cornell. To physical therapists convened in Cincinnati last week Dr. Hansson described a machine designed by himself and his associate which pumps blood out of one arm, irradiates it with germicidal ultraviolet rays, puts it back in the other arm. Citrate of sodium introduced into the blood as it leaves the vein prevents coagulation. ''It is for the future," said Dr. Hansson, "to show what can be accomplished. One difficulty in experiments was that we didn't know the safe amount of radiation to give...