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Just outside Acapulco, on the road to Mexico City, is a little garden restaurant called El Parque Cachú. Its proprietor, a grey little man known to his neighbors as el gringo, hid his Nordic blue eyes behind dark glasses as he served beer and tacos in the shade of his cashew trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Secret of El Gringo | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Died. The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, 33, erratic blonde friend of Adolf Hitler (who called her "the perfect example of Nordic beauty)," sister-in-law of British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, fourth daughter of Baron Redesdale of Redesdale;* reportedly of meningitis; in Oban, Scotland. Unity, suffering from a mysteriously inflicted bullet wound, was sent home from Germany at Christmas 1939, in a special train ordered by Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...heritage: Greek art and intellect, Roman law and government, the Christian religion. It is the heir to England's Magna Charta, to France's cathedrals (and France's revolution), Italy's Renaissance and Germany's Reformation, to Don Quixote, the Divina Commedia, the Nordic sagas. Lacking a fixed geographical border, it has included the Slavs and Magyars of Eastern Europe when they chose to accept the European heritage. It has never included more than the fringes of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Toward a United Europe | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Jumping (40 meter): Griffin, Bogert, Genn, and Taylor. Nordblom for nordic combined only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...Nordic combined: paper event scored by adding points of each of four men in both cross country and jumping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Hopes Blow Hot And Cold for Carnival Meet | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

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