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Target shooting in Switzerland is still as much of a national sport as it was in the U. S. in 1830. Hawk-eyed Swiss hold nearly all the free-rifle records in the world. Their team world's record, made in Stockholm last year, is 5,442 out of a possible 6,000. On an International target, two inches at 300 metres is all that separates a 10-point bullseye from...
...Stockholm: His Royal Highness Crown Prince Gustav Adolf officially denied today reports from Amsterdam of the betrothal of his second son Prince Sigvard to Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands...
Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe, died at his castle of Skokloster. To his funeral came Sweden's King, Crown Prince, Prime Minister and a delegation of Swedish nobles. With bowed heads nobles and peasants stood in the ancient chapel of Castle Skokloster while Archbishop Söderblom of Stockholm read the funeral service. Came a pause. Then up to the coffin strode Sweden's brawny Master of Heraldry. With a dramatic gesture he seized the ancient black-winged wooden escutcheon of the Brahe family, broke it in two across the coffin as a sign that no Swede will ever...
There is no real majority in the Andra Kammaren (Lower House) at Stockholm, any more than there is one in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris. But Swedes are naturally less prone to sudden topplings down of Governments than Frenchmen. The previous Cabinet (Conservative) of Admiral Arvid Lindman, who was forced out fortnight ago (TIME, June 9), had remained in office for 20 months although out of 230 deputies in the Andra Kammaren only 73 are Conservative...
...Olympic Games of modern times: 1896, Athens; 1900, Paris; 1904, St. Louis; 1906, Athens; 1908, London; 1912, Stockholm; 1920, Antwerp; 1924, Paris; 1928, Amsterdam...