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Died. First Lieut. Augustus Van Cortlandt III, 22, only son of Manhattan socialite Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., 51, who thus became the last surviving male of his famed old New York family (Dutch-born Olaf Van Cortlandt emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1638), which once owned 83,000 acres of New York City and Westchester County (including the Bronx' huge, sprawling Van Cortlandt Park which was sold to the city in 1889); of wounds received in battle in Germany...
...sweat, the human body is a regular soda fountain-the sweat of the brow is strong in uric acid, the sweat of the hands is strong in chloride (salt), the sweat of the thigh is strong in lactic acid. These pungent facts are disclosed in a report by Drs. Olaf Mickelson and Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota in the Journal of Biological Chemistry...
Aethelred, being before his time, adopted a policy of appeasement and paid Olaf, predecessor of Sweyn, ?10,000 to give up his first raid. After that Aethelred paid consecutively ?16,000, ?24,000, and finally ?36,000, but when the price of peace reached ?48,000 Aethelred collected a great fleet, ordered a general massacre of the Danish fifth column, and decreed a great levy of troops-his idea of selective service. Politics and traitorous quarrels disrupted the navy and the army; so that Sweyn overran England while Aethelred fled. The policy of opportunism had paved the path for William...
...Sweden, where the tradition of democracy is more than 500 years old, even the royal houses, like the Swedish forests, labor-employer relations, cooperatives, cheese factories and representative government, must be well run. In this orderly pattern Sweden's Crown Prince and Duke of Skone, Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, has found his niche...
Matter-of-fact Olaf Gerhard Thörnell, Commander in Chief of all Swedish armed forces, has 600,000 men at his command. The standard yardstick allows about half of these as combat divisions, but more could be mobilized in a pinch. Sweden has plenty of small arms, Swedish-made Bofors anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. The army is well trained, but not battle-tested. It lacks sufficient tanks and heavy armaments, is woefully weak in fighter planes, which were ordered from the U.S. in 1940 but later diverted to China. When German military power was at its height...