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Like Babe Ruth, gaunt and gainly Gunder Hägg has become popular with Swedish newsmen because of his ability to call his shots in advance. Last summer, during a track meet in Stockholm's Stadion, he announced that he would break the world's record for the mile the next...
Last week a sudden order from the State Department sent six members of the American Legation at Helsinki flying off to Stockholm with their families. Left to carry on with one clerk, one telephone operator, was Charge d'Affaires Robert M. McClintock. Left to stew and wonder was Finland-at war with the Russians, bludgeoned by Germany, and now roundly rebuked...
...Stockholm "informed sources" (often mouthpieces for the Nazis) let it be known that British Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, long in comfortable durance vile in Germany, had asked Sweden for a residence permit...
Berggrav's militant Christianity has brought about a resurgence of religious fervor not only in Norway but throughout Scandinavia. Last week Dr. Gustav Aulen, Sweden's Bishop of Strängnäs (near Stockholm) paid a public tribute to his brother imprisoned in the Oslo cottage: "Berggrav's spirit has gone free through closed doors and has witnessed that God's words bear no chains. He and Norway's martyr Church are living testimonies . . . that no violent power can annihilate the life borne by God's spirit...
...motives was published, with a first printing of 15,000 copies. The head of Tass, the news agency by which all foreign news is obtained for Russian papers, has for some time been getting up at 6 every morning to study English. He has had correspondents in Geneva, Stockholm. London, Teheran, New York, Ankara and Chungking...