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...Bonnier wanted a paper that would back the Allies (only some 20% of Sweden's editors were pro-German at the time), needed an editor with enough spunk and sparkle to put Expressen apart from the rest of the Swedish press, which was generally cast in the sobersided Scandinavian tradition...
...largest paper in all Scandinavia (circ. 370,000). Expressen is hale because it is hearty. Its formula: a smorgasbord of culture and sensationalism enlivened by flashy picture play and bellowing headlines. Last week, Expressen outdid itself, produced 600,000 copies of a 64-page issue, biggest in Scandinavian history...
...grove on the bank of the Skhodnia River about 30 miles northwest of Moscow, leveling the site for the first of several self-contained "Sputnik [satellite] towns" designed to move both industry and workers from the congested capital. Total population of each Sputnik: 65,000. After studying British and Scandinavian models, Soviet architects broke with the clumsy gingerbread architecture of the Stalin era, planned ten sections of four-story apartment houses to be assembled from prefab materials and set down amid flowers, shrubbery and ornamental ponds, as well as shopping centers, nurseries and kindergartens. Express buses will link the satellites...
...predawn darkness at New York's Idlewild Airport, a mustached, parrot-nosed man in a snap-brim hat and grey overcoat alighted from a chartered Scandinavian Airlines DC-7C, was soon swept into a knot of welcomers and greeted in a torrent of Russian. The visitor: Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, Khrushchev's top economic adviser and political crony...
...anyone imagines that the export of The Sorceress, One Summer of Happiness, and Ingrid Bergman has emptied the Scandinavian fleshpots, he has only to go to the Brattle and taste Smiles of a Summer Night...