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Rarely have I seen such a piece of unfair and misleading reporting as Joe David Brown's article about sin & Sweden. To say that Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen's views on sex relations are typically Swedish is wrong; to let a 19-year-old boy, as a final note on Swedish manners, declare that he would never marry a girl because he made her pregnant is foul...
...qualifications and refused to let her compete, the young mother received bales of encouraging letters and the judges were roundly blasted. The sex education given in public schools would make even the most modern, broad-minded American parent blanch. At a party in Stockholm, I met Mrs. Elise Ottesen-Jensen, the 17th of 18 children of a Norwegian family, a vigorous, outspoken woman who looks years younger than she is (69). She travels all over Sweden by car, train and even on skis to run clinics, advises branch offices and lectures on birth control and sex relations...
...show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly interested...
...Jensen of Iowa...
...Boudreau's Bosox and Bucky Harris' Senators loom as the two dark horses of the league and in this book they figure to place and show in that order. The Sox are mainly a young team, but they are sprinkled with old pros like Kell, Evers, and Williams. The Jensen trade helped them a lot. Even without the injured Williams they look like a second-place club, but with a strong Williams they could challenge the Yanks. The Senators, with a top-flight pitching staff and a fast young club, look like third place, but won't go any higher...