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...second stanza saw the Islanders notch four more against the now sun-burnt Bernie Parent, including two by Swede-turned-Canadian Nystrom completing the third hat trick of his career...
...have nothing else besides that concrete keepsake and a remarkable earnest portrait in the family album to remind us of Carl Stanley Flanders' Yale football career. He was a large man, six feet four and over two hundred pounds, nicknamed "The Big Swede," and his playing ability earned him a spot on Walter Camp's Second Team All American Squad. My brothers and I learned this all secondhand; my grandfather died in an oxygen tent fighting pneumonia, his body ravaged by time and too much alcohol, when my father was still a young man. By all accounts...
...Typical Swede...
...cannot agree with the Social Democratic politician [Oct. 4] who regards "clever, honest" Falldin as typically Swedish. The typical 20th century Swede is Olof Palme: arrogant, neurotic and vociferously anti-American...
...become Sweden's highest-paid executive. He earns $340,000 a year, though taxes gobble up 80% of it. In addition, Wall controls 15% of all outstanding Beijerinvest shares, which at current market prices are worth about $3.6 million. In marked contrast to the stereotype of the dour Swede, Wall is a chipper, handsome, nattily dressed man who favors loud ties and modern art. A striking transparent torso of a woman stuffed with American $1 bills adorns his Stockholm office. Wall's key strength as an executive-a virtue that pleases even Sweden's socialists...