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Swindler's Sellout. Founded by Swedish Tinkerer Lars Magnus Ericsson 86 years ago, Ericsson Telephone has had a troubled history: Super-Swindler Ivar Krueger, who got control of the company in the late 1920s, sold off his interest in 1931 to Ericsson's archrival, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph Co. This evoked patriotic outcries in Sweden and led to the intervention of the brothers Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, who between them head the boards of 24 Swedish companies with combined sales of $1.6 billion. Aided by a law that prohibits foreign control of Swedish firms, Marcus...
...limited in cinematographic technique, but its brilliant characterizations and universal theme of man's helplessness in a hostile universe give it a quality of genius. Professor von Helping, the German occult scholar and vampire expert, embodies the intellectual's plight of being disregarded by society. Otto Krueger turns in an admirable performance as the sensitive young psychiatrist who knows he is unable to understand or mediate the deeper workings of the mind. And above all is the towering tragic figure of Countess Elesca-Dracula's daughter-swept along like a bit of ash in a wind to her final agony...
...arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert E. Baskin and John Mashek. Aware of its news deficiencies, the News ordered a reduction in the use of syndicated material from 50% of available news space to 25%. Said Managing Editor Jack Krueger, who engineered the reduction: "We've cleaned out the paper for news...
...titles and equally appealing to the imagination if given half a chance. Manhattan's Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage is providing that chance in a series of 20 recordings, giving voice to some 25 little-known U.S. composers. As interpreted by Conductor Karl Krueger (formerly of the Detroit Symphony), they all emerge as competent musicians, and several give glimpses of sizable talent. Among the more interesting unsung melodists...
...Louisiana in 1941, Reserve Captain Lodge had heard a lot about up-and-coming Colonel Dwight David Eisenhower, was impressed to hear Major General George Patton offer a $50 reward to anybody who took prisoner "a certain s.o.b. named Eisenhower." (Colonel Eisenhower was chief of staff of General Walter Krueger's Third Army; Patton was a division commander in the rival Second Army.) Lodge met Eisenhower, was an admirer from then on; he started publicly plugging Ike for President as far back as 1950. In November 1951, before General Eisenhower agreed to run, the three-D Ikemen (New York...