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...ball feting French air cadets in Sweden's university city of Uppsala, Lieut. General Axel Ljungdahl, chief of the Swedish air force, executed some fancy foot maneuvers with the eldest daughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, glamorous Princess Margaretha, 20, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelor girls...
...grateful not only for the chance to have direct contact with Americans, but also to meet other Europeans. As one Stockholm youth put it, "Perhaps Americans believe that people from the different Europeans countries know each other well. At least for me... the knowledge of other European countries outside Scandinavia before the Seminar was very much less...
Laguerre lunched with a famous British ex-Communist, then he was off to an interview with a Foreign Office official. Back at the office, incoming stories and suggestions from TIME stringers in Ireland, Scandinavia and the main British cities were edited and evaluated for the overnight story suggestion list to the editors in New York...
Lying north of Australia, New Guinea, an island the size of Scandinavia, is populated by an unknown number of fuzzy-haired tribesmen who have no idea of government. The eastern half of New Guinea is ruled by Australia; who should rule the western half was in grave dispute last week. West New Guinea, a strategic prize, may also become economically important when oil and mineral discoveries are properly developed...
...jazz age has its echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members...