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...Modern Pentathlon, run off on five successive days, was invented by the romantic Swedes, has invariably been won by one. The Swede who won last week, Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, did it without placing first in any of the five events. He was fourth in the riding (on unfamiliar mounts over 500 metres of un familiar terrain), 14th in fencing (with buttoned épees), second in the pistol shoot (at disappearing targets with a 45-calibre revolver), fifth in the swimming, seventh in running 4,000 metres across rough country. Point total...
...running. Olympic ski-runners usually carry, in unlabeled tubes which they distinguish by smell. 50 kinds of ski-wax. The problem in a race is to use the right kind. Johan Grottumsbraaten, of Norway, champion in 1924, lost the lang lauf. Two Swedes-Sven Utterstrom, heretofore a long distance champion, and his teammate, Axel Vikstrom-came in first, with two Finns behind them. Arne Rustadstuen and Grottumsbraaten were fifth & sixth. Next day, Grottumsbraaten's two jumps of 161 & 163 ft. were in good enough form to give him the combined (ski-running, ski-jumping) championship...
...Father. Mad Johan August Strindberg wrote this play about a mad man in 1887, partly to attack the growing feminist movement in Sweden, partly to work off some of his hatred of woman kind. Revived by Robert Loraine and a company of British actors, it retains all the fury its author put into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about...
Husband-Father-Grandfather Curtius has six children: Barbara, 23, who married Hans Bernd von Maesten and whose son, Johan, was born July 19; Klaus, 25; Wolfgang, 20; Verena, 18; Dorothea, 16; Christel...
...Government of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina the sum of more than half a million florins ($220,000) was left by Her Majesty's loyal subject Banker Johan Gerard Daniel Waterler with two stipulations...