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...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...
Lowell: Andy Kauffman, stroke; Thompson Orr, 7; Bill Dutton, 6; Sam Kent, 5; Bill Lewis, 4; Don Bradshaw, 3; Sven Peterson, 2; Dick Bowen, 1; Howard Oedel...
...lute-playing less simply. Although born in England, he had a U.S. mother, chose to become a U.S. citizen on his 21st birthday, went to the University of California. There he met a voice teacher who remodeled his youthful tenor and told him of a great Swedish minstrel named Sven Scholander. When Dyer-Bennet inherited $500, he hotfooted to Sweden, learned the Swedish lute and some balladeering tricks. He was just in time: within a year, Scholander and his lute-maker were both dead...
...Nazi Party in Sweden has never elected a single candidate to any office. In the last election it didn't think it worthwhile even to nominate candidates. My namesake, Sven Hedin, is not a new recruit. When I visited the French front in the last war as a correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, he was often a guest of the Kaiser. I had not then seen him and we are not related...
...Open recruiting for the Nazi Party has brought into camp Swedish Army and Navy officers, judges, university students, many noblemen and noblewomen, Explorer Sven Hedin...