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Sigvard knew something of life. Six years ago, when he was 20, he had known Greta Garbo in Stockholm. Three years ago he firmly refused to marry fat Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. But for Erika he could think of nothing but marriage. Several months ago he took his little blonde back to Stockholm to get the King's permission. With a snort of pain Gustaf packed up and went down to the Riviera to play tennis, knowing well that Swedish law forbids a prince to marry in Sweden without his permission. But Sigvard was set on deserting...
When neighboring King Gustaf V receives in Stockholm no precedence is given to the Soviet Minister, beauteous Alexandra Kollantay. Quite as though she were a man, Comrade Kollantay stands back until diplomats who have been longer at Stockholm than she bow before Sweden's Gustaf. Not only has Comrade Kollantay never claimed the right of "ladies first," but like other Old Bolsheviks she considers ''lady" a repulsive epithet. Very much a lady is the first woman ever appointed a U. S. Minister. Last week in Copenhagen the rule that senior diplomats always take precedence was waived...
Administrators of the estate of the late Ivar Kreuger announced that, to satisfy creditors, $100,000 worth of his silverware, books, paintings, including a Bacchanalian by Peter Paul Rubens valued at $20,000, will be sold at auction in Jersey City. In Stockholm Torsten Kreuger was fined 1,500.000 kroner (about $390,000) and sentenced to one year's hard labor for his part in his brother's crockery. Administrators of the estate of Chicago's late Edith Rockefeller McCormick announced that the furnishings of her Romanesque Lake Shore Drive town house will be auctioned next month...
Promised the Havana post at the first shuffle of the New Deal.'Diplomat Caffery is quite as experienced a Career Man as his predecessor. Service has taken him from Caracas to Stockholm, from Teheran to Tokyo, from Berlin to Bogota. He can cope effectively with the Latin American mind...
Said happy Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin: "I am thrilled at the prospect of going to Stockholm on Dec. 11 to receive the honor at the hands of King Gustaf. I certainly can use the money...