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This week the finger of justice was leveled once more at long-dead Ivar Kreuger. He was named, dead or alive, as a coconspirator in an antitrust complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against 18 match corporations and match kings...
...naming of Swedish Match King Kreuger was historically appropriate. But it was more appropriate that the No. 1 corporate defendant should be the U.S.'s Diamond Match Co., and that the first individual named was Diamond's secretive, 67-year-old engineer president, William Armstrong Fairburn. Match King Fairburn, who works most of the time at his secluded, tree-hedged ranch in California's Ojai Valley and rarely appears in Diamond's discreet Manhattan offices, has run Diamond like a Central American dictator since 1910, when he was called in to figure out how to make...
Sweden: "A further proof of the Soviet Union's determination to fight to a victorious end on the side of the Allies against Fascist dictatorships" (from Torsten Kreuger's strongly anti-Communist Aftonbladet...
...expanding Harvard as if it was his own back yard, leaping into sewer ditches to discover fragments of antique Harvard chinaware, laying out new Yard walks with a bundle of stakes and twine. He inherited a large fortune and fattened it judiciously (except when he lost $194,412 in Kreuger & Toll). He endowed (with some $1,000,000) the Harvard Society of Fellows-a group of 24 brilliant young men who are lodged in the "Houses" and paid $1,250 to $1,500 annually for three years so that they can pursue graduate studies unencumbered by formal Ph.D. requirements...
...three of the visitors have good teams, the Islanders' squad featured by Jack Kreuger, a powerful shot-putter and field events flash, while Mike Prodhodsky leads the Huskies. Prodhodsky will be running both the mile and the half-mile tomorrow...