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...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...
...last week the little nautilus shell, more formally known as the Scandinavian Gold Cup, had become recognized as the world's No. 1 yachting trophy for small boats. Norway had won it seven times, Sweden six times, the U. S. four times. Because a U. S. boat had won the series the past three years (and consequently defended the cup in its home waters), U. S. yachtsmen last winter sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year...
This exacting art Sonja Henie began to study when she was eight. For Christmas that year Father Wilhelm, a Scandinavian copy of W. C. Fields, gave her her first, cheap pair of skates. Trying them out at the Frogner Stadium, little Sonja promptly sat down. Getting up, she practiced her outer and inner edges so diligently that next year she won Oslo's junior competition; five years after that, aged 14, the Norwegian championship. That was the Olympic Year of 1924 and Sonja went to Chamonix to try out in the great games. The trial was a disappointment...
...whom Dagrun had first loved and whom she returns to see. So slow-paced is the book that even its climax, when Dagrun and Steffen are marooned overnight on a deserted island, seems unexciting. Sigrid Boo thinks her book would make a good movie, hopes that fellow Scandinavian Garbo will play the lead. It would take the Garbo face and voice to put umph in such a gentle...
...last ten weeks. All electric lights had been cut off, the waterworks were out of order, the municipal buildings were all destroyed. By day Swatow was a deserted city, but at night, when no bombers came, it hummed with shipping activity. To the port came British, French, U. S., Scandinavian ships bringing war materials. From Swatow they were taken overland in trucks to Shiuchow, 240 miles away, headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Southeastern Chinese Army...