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Sports write-ups, rising from the past, stigma of having played second fiddle to the Advocate, came to be the almost exclusive subject matter of the Crimsons of the two decades straddling 1900. Searchers for signs...
Alone among the countries of Europe, Norway has dared to look frankly into the eyes of its "war babies." Nine thousand offspring of Norwegian mothers and German fathers born during the German occupation will bear no stigma when they grow up. The children's origin will be purposely obscured in order to protect them against Norwegian resentment toward their parents...
...years by the Nazis took this line: "I heard in my country of only one case. A girl had from a German soldier a baby against her will. As soon as the baby was born, she killed it." Norway, which three decades ago took the lead in abolishing the stigma of illegitimacy, has decided that facts should not only be faced, but lived with...
Inga Arvad, sightly Danish film writer, thought it over for two days, then broke her engagement to British M.P. (Conservative) Robert Boothby-because she felt that the stigma of having once been described by Adolf Hitler as "the perfect Nordic beauty" would hurt her M.P.'s career...
Harold LeClare Ickes turned his curmudgeonly thumbs down on Gerald L. K. Smith's request for a Yellowstone Park buffalo as an "American First" mascot saying he doubted that any decent buffalo could "bear such a stigma." The Secretary of the Interior also suggested last fortnight that Hamilton Fish should be "fried not only on one side, but on both." This week Representative Fish sizzled into rhyme...