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American students will have the opportunity to study the humor of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden through a $4,500 donation by radio humorist Edgar Bergen to the American-Scandinavian Foundation, it was announced yesterday. Three scholarships have been established...
...Bergen awards will be granted to students of literature, psychology, or any related liberal arts field. Bergen believes that the study of Scandinavian humor will create a better understanding in America of the Northern European countries...
Forgery in Stone? Doubters soon spoke up to spoil the fun. Experts on old Norse writing claimed that the language was like no known Scandinavian dialect. Authorities decided that the stone was a forgery. It was probably carved, they thought, by a friend of Farmer Ohman, an unfrocked Swedish minister who was known to have had a Swedish grammar with a section on runes. During the past 50 years few real experts have even bothered to study the discredited stone...
...Eleazar Lipsky, the film is played as though everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Director John Sturges draws a distinctive gallery of urban types, with zoot-suited William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...
Britain's Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison finished his Scandinavian holiday by eating a codfish and champagne lurch with Queen Louise and King