Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Stockholm reported Adolf Hitler had quit his Berchtesgaden hide away for the Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...
Soprano Flagstad was partly responsible. Years ago, when she sang an audition in Oslo, a baby cried in the next room. It was Astrid Varnay. Flagstad made friends with the elder Varnays, a coloratura soprano and a stage director at the Stockholm Royal Opera. Soon the Varnays moved to the U.S. When Flagstad followed, she learned that Astrid had a voice and sent her to her own teacher, Hermann Weigert...
...Stockholm reports said last week that Foreign Minister Scavenius had negotiated Denmark into the Anti-Comintern Pact behind the backs of sad King Christian and other Cabinet members. When he produced his fait accompli, they at first refused to add their signatures. Then Foreign Minister Scavenius called their attention to the scowling face of Adolf Hitler...
Instructors in Electronics; Herbert D. Schwetman of Waco, Tex., A. M. University of Texan '37; and Harry E. H. Stockman of Cambridge, Mass., Diploma, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm...
...Stockholm is a city of rocky inlets, cliffs, bays, lakes and forests as well as and buildings, its planners are thinking that the natural setting is not obliterated by cheap, sprawling flats, anticipating such a development with strict laws and government-financed projects the relieve housing needs in other directions...