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...countries spoke German, and they both wanted the Olympics in their own area," ordered Spanish substituted for German to please Latin American delegates. Weller embarked on a four-month tour of South America to emphasize the advantages of an Olympics in the Western Hemisphere. His next trip was to Scandinavia, where he plugged the idea of a simple Olympics to thrifty Swedes and Norwegians. Cushing and Haseltine took on other European I.O.C. representatives. *The Soft Sell. By the time the crucial meeting convened in Paris, Cushing & Co. had made personal contact with 42 of the 62 delegates. The three Americans...
Antonius Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forestall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forestall...
Passing through Scandinavia, as he has many times for 40 years. Veteran Foreign Correspondent Negley (The Way of a Transgressor) Farson made his customary mental notes about those happy lands. The landscape: "refreshingly beautiful." The cities: "no slums." Social legislation: "far ahead." Chief characteristic: "about the last place in Europe where sanity still survived." But on one point Farson found himself baffled. "Why," he wrote to Denmark's biggest newspaper. Berlingske Tidende, "in countries noted for their social services and the almost universal kindness of one man to another, in lands where legislation seemed to have abolished most...
...swept away by the Philadelphia's sheer lush quality, while the Americans, who scheduled twelve jumbo-sized concerts in 13 days, were nearly swept away by the effort of putting them on night after night. Ahead lay four more performances in Leningrad before the Philadelphia moved on to Scandinavia, Poland and Western Europe, winding up its 14-nation tour next month at the Brussels World's Fair...
Many a company has helped along the restoration boom. New Jersey's Scandinavia Belting Co. still makes transmission linings for the Ford Model A and Model T. In the East, at least three major wheelwrights make wheels for the oldsters. Western Auto Supply. Sears. Roebuck and Montgomery Ward market parts for the Model T. Firestone Tire & Rubber sells several thousand antique tires a year, priced up to $67.55 each (for the Stanley Steamer and Stutz...