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...desperately in love with one of them, but was afraid to approach her. Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...
...months, Papa Henie dug down into his capacious pantaloons and Sonja followed the ice and the good teachers into Germany, England, Switzerland, Austria. To develop her defective sense of rhythm, she studied ballet. In 1926, feeling her oats, she entered the world's championship matches in Stockholm, took second place. There followed another year of training, and in 1927 Sonja at last was first...
...Chambers of New York University; Irving Widmer Bailey of Harvard; Herbert Spencer Jennings of Johns Hopkins; Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt and Charles Atwood Kofoid of the University of California; Charles Manning Child and Cornelis Barnardus van Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...
Belgium suffered at 95°, and only Congo officials home on leave thought the temperature bearable. Lack of rain hurt the Belgian fruit crop. Karlstad, Swedish manufacturing town, had the hottest weather for Scandinavia (86°), and Stockholm consumed 183,400 cubic meters (48,417,600 gallons) of water in one day. Drought meant bad crops and forest fires for Sweden. Copenhagen reported three deaths from sunstroke...
...dancing to Chopin's Seconde Étude played as a tango; in Warsaw, where the officers called up are whiling away the time between crises learning to play bridge; in Belgium, where they are polishing their bicycles preparing for the 28th annual cycle tour next week; in Stockholm, where midnight concerts are about to begin and crowds are flocking to see Bette Davis in Dark Victory; in Rome, where they are laughing at a boy-meets-girl comedy called Two Dozen Red Roses and singing a tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling...