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Seven University professors in the field of literature were in the dark last night about the achievements of Halder Laxness, Icelandic author who has won the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature. Only Gunnar K. Baklund, lecturer on Swedish, could state that Laxness's success lies in his adoption of the form and simple prose of the ancient Icelandic saga...
Dodd attacked the Ford Foundation for its "dubious staff and its support of Communism and socialist propaganda." One witness, sympathetically questioned by the chairman, attacked the Kinsey Report, financed by a foundation grant, as a force for weakening American morals, and another criticized Gunnar Myrdal's book "An American Dilemma" because it saw too much that is shoddy in our society...
Early last week, as the Aruba passed under the tip of India, the Finnish crew grumbled a strike threat if the ship continued to sail on into "dangerous waters." They demanded that she put in at Ceylon. Gunnar Damstroem, manager of the Re-Be Shipping Co.. which owns the vessel, replied with a Columbus-like "Sail on!" At least, he instructed the Aruba's captain by radio to keep the ship on the open ocean and out of harm's way as long as the crew would permit. Leaving Ceylon behind without putting in to port...
...himself off the pace for the first three-quarters of the mile run, then burned up the boards of the Madison Square Garden track in a last-quarter dash that brought him home in a meet-record 4:07.9, three yards ahead of his persistent rivals, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen and Private Fred Dwyer. Earlier, on the Garden's crowded infield, Lieut. Parry O'Brien put the 16-lb. shot to a new world indoor record...
...Algom's production will go to the Canadian government. Last week the company announced that it had won a contract to sell $207 million worth of uranium to the government by Dec. 31, 1961, almost three times the amount of the contract given Gunnar Gold Mines, the biggest current potential producer...