Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auctioned: household furnishings, bed clothes, paintings, childhood odds & ends of Greta Garbo; after seven years in storage; in Stockholm. On Garbo 's instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...
Almost as quiet was Harold Stassen, self-avowed G.O.P. presidential aspirant, headed homeward after an eight-week junket which had touched almost every country in Europe. He had spent most of his time with businessmen, or conferring with political leaders. He had seen Stalin (see PRESS). Last week, in Stockholm, his path crossed Henry Wallace's-the third of the trio. They did not meet. Said Stassen of Wallace: "I did not come here to listen to him." Said Wallace of Stassen: "Maybe he feared he would get tainted...
...Silken Curtain. In Sweden, where Wallace hopped next, he was received by a choir singing the U.S. national anthem. Ac Stockholm University's auditorium, a crowd of 1,000 people fought to get in for an hour before Wallace was scheduled to speak. But Wallace had gone to another auditorium, where a handful of people were waiting for another speaker, and started to speak before someone found him. There was something about Henry Wallace that bred disorder-even among the orderly Swedes...
...Stockholm, Union Leader Yngve Moller said: "He was reactionary. This hardly appeals to a Swede. But he will likely find a credit account in heaven for the magnificence of his achievements." In Paris, the Socialists were harder on him. Said Pierre Mignot, a biology teacher: "His Taylor* system marks the beginning of modern slavery." Paris youngsters (who belong to the jeep, not the tin-Lizzie era) did not even know his name, and many an oldster shuddered at it. Said grey-haired Gaston, headwaiter at Lavrue's: " Voyez-vous, Monsieur Ford gave us speed. In the old days, Parisians...
...Stockholm, Hans Gerschweiler (Switzerland) won out over 18-year-old Dick Button (New Jersey) for the men's world figure-skating crown and set off a howl in Sweden's press. Stockholm's Tid-ningen said: "The best skater lost. . . ."; Dagens Nyheter added: "The judge lacked experience...