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Stockholm's Dagens Nyheter labeled him an "apostle of hypocrisy," and said that Brundage came from a land where a "top tennis player doesn't go to a tournament for less than $500 to $800 . . . and their university sports are the world's biggest amateur fraud." Idrottsbladet got in a lick: "It took Our Lord 800,000,000 years to create the world of today. How long a time will it take Mr. Brundage to learn to understand it?" (Sweden was mad because its track heroes-Gunder Hägg and Arne Andersson-had been barred from...
Proprietor and Editor Idrottsbladet...
With reference to an article which appeared in your issue of July 30, I am enclosing herewith a copy of a letter received by me . . . from Mr. Torsten Tegner, the proprietor and editor of Idrottsbladet...
Disavowing all prejudices, TIME gladly prints the following letter, substantiating Minister Steinhardt's original claim of misquotation by Idrottsbladet (TIME, July...
...return to Stockholm from my vacation, I have made a thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the statement which recently appeared in Idrottsbladet charging that you had criticized Swedish sportsmanship in the course of a speech to visiting American athletes. I am convinced that the article in question did you a great injustice. I find that you made no speech. It appears that the article was based on the account of one of your guests at a tea party given by you and at which there were more Swedes than Americans present. It seems that during this party you suggested...