Word: sven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auctioned: household furnishings, bed clothes, paintings, childhood odds & ends of Greta Garbo; after seven years in storage; in Stockholm. On Garbo 's instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...
Adolf Hitler, onetime world's foremost book-banner, became a banned author in Germany. A German "sifting committee" blacklisted Mem Kampf, also hung verboten signs on the works of Historian Oswald Spengler, Novelist Knut Hamsun, Explorer Sven Hedin, some 2,000 other writers...
...imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted in: "The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper...
Chairman of SKF's board of directors is talented, energetic Sven Wingquist. One of its influential directors is big, powerful Jacob Wallenberg, banker, match-truster a man of many financial interests, including some in Germany...
...Sven Malmberg is a Swedish orchestra leader. In the blacked-out cities of Germany he played forbidden jazz to nerve-racked citizens of the Third Reich, who wanted hot music to jar them out of their depression. To questioning police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told...