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Royalty from all Scandinavia gathered in Stockholm to celebrate the 70th birthday of King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Among the special events: a gift contributed by his subjects, a check for 5,000,000 kroner ($966,500), which the King said would be used to further Swedish culture; an all-Wagnerian concert by the Royal Court Orchestra, conducted, after shirtsleeved rehearsals, by King Frederik of Denmark...
...Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, the audience waiting to see the world premiere of The Living Room, the first play from the pen of Novelist Graham Greene, was kept waiting for a while. Reason: Author Greene had got stuck in an apartment elevator, and was 20 minutes late getting to the theater. Next day the Dagens Nyheter critic reported: "A dull play but smartly done, almost too smartly done...
...Nobel Prize winners will be formally presented the awards, each worth $33,037 in cash, at ceremonies in Stockholm, December 10. The two physicists will share the cash prize...
Back in the U.S. in 1942, Scott wrote two books in quick succession, Behind the Urals and Duel for Europe. Later he became TIME'S wartime correspondent in Stockholm, and first postwar chief of the Berlin Bureau. He has also written a third book, Europe In Revolution, and is currently working on a book on political warfare...
...officers with Communist Party activities. One of the 26: black-browed, Corsica-born John Toussaint Bernard, who was once (1937-38) a Farmer-Labor Congressman from Minnesota, and who once (1950) appeared in Chicago's Loop clad in a Santa Claus suit and handing out Stockholm (i.e., Communist) peace petitions. Subpoenaed by the committee, Bernard invoked the Fifth Amendment, refused to admit or deny Communist activities or sympathies. He left the stand after making a bellicose demand for the $12 owed to him in witness fees...