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...young (45), blue-eyed Swede named Gunnar Myrdal landed in the U.S. in 1938 to make a fresh, thorough and impartial study of American Negroes. After five years of research, assisted by a staff of some 75 Carnegie Corporation-financed helpers, Sweden's Myrdal found that his whole ambitious project hinged on one simple question: "What goes on in the minds of white Americans?" Last week he published his complex, 1,483-page answer, called it An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Harper; 2 vols...
...leaders-from Minister of Finance Ernst Wigforss and former Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler; from industrialists Sigfrid Edström and Torsten Hèrnod; from Managing Director Jacob Wallenberg of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank; and from such other well-known figures as the Countess Ebba Bonde, economist Gunnar Myrdal, and film director Victor Sjöström, who launched Greta Garbo...
Coach Kennedy of the Lions, without his sprint star of last year, Captain John Vergeichik, will be forced to depend on Gunnar Ohberg in the short races...
Among the Godkin lecturers in the past have been James Hryes, President Charles William Eliot, Jogef Rexllich, Herbert Croly, Leon Dupriex, Moorfield Story, John Grier Hibben, Alfred Zimmern, Murray Seasongood, Walter Lippmann, Heinrich Bruening, Gunnar Myrdud, and Robert Moses...
...famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden was the only one who stubbornly refused to leave...