Word: scandinavian
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...weighs 178 lb., has a leonine head. His motion as well as his music gets them. He climbs casually all over the nightclub furniture, sings on his feet, on the back of a chair, on a table, on a customer's lap. His eyes are Scandinavian blue, his smile broad and boyish, his manner unfailingly virile. In London in the '20s he got the romantic lead opposite diaphanous Evelyn Laye in The Merry Widow. A string of stage and cinema hits followed; there were Carl Brisson fan clubs, chocolates, cigarets, bathing suits. Lord Beaverbrook ran Brisson...
...nomination. Yet last week when the primary votes were counted, Pat Heaton was 344 votes behind George W. Olsen, a baggy-clothed 62-year-old cafeteria bus boy at Omaha's Martin bomber plant, and an absolute political unknown. Sole reason for George Olsen's triumph: his Scandinavian name...
...Nebraska a Scandinavian name has an almost superlative political charm. Of the six top state officers below Governor, three are named Johnson, two Swanson...
...were renominated last week. Yet Scandinavians make up only 6.4% of Nebraska's population. Nebraskans pondering this phenomenon long ago came up with the answer. In Nebraska, Germans will not vote for Bohemians, and vice versa. Neither will Germans or Bohemians or Czechs vote for Irish, and vice versa. But all these racial groups can, with equanimity, vote for a Scandinavian. Also, and perhaps more important, in predominantly Protestant Nebraska, one certain way not to vote for a Catholic is to vote for a Scandinavian...
...American magazine to publish in Mexico City (to get the news faster to Mexico and Central America), in Bogotá (to get the news faster to Brazil and Uruguay), and in Buenos Aires (to get the news faster to the Argentine). And a few months ago TIME, with its Scandinavian Edition printed in Stockholm, became the first magazine published inside the German blockade (January...