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When you talk about the struggles of Nelson Algren's childhood in tough old Chicago [May 31] you're making a liar out of me to my wife. "Swede" Algren and I were close friends from the time we were 13 until after college, including a memorable Depression summer when we hitchhiked down to the lower Rio Grande valley in Texas...
...true that he worked his way through the University of Illinois, but generally Swede and I had a pretty carefree time in our teens. The point is, the Nelson Algren I grew up with had an ordinary boyhood without hunger, fear or deprivation. He's a great writer without the hoked-up background...
...Afraid. A Swede, Jacobsson was one of those rare men (less rare in Sweden than elsewhere) who served no country, but the world. He began his career as an international civil servant in the 1920s with the League of Nations, later became chief of the Monetary and Economics department of the Bank of International Settlements in Basel-a post he resigned in 1956 to take over at I.M.F., then a relatively unimportant institution...
...alarmed Swedes lined up at state-run package stores to buy what they could, the government restricted akvavit sales to a bottle per customer. And word went out that unless something is done this week, fully a third of all Sweden's liquor stores will be out of akvavit altogether. Bootleggers turned up furtively with the popular Brännvin akvavit, asking $20 for the bottle which normally sells for $5. "A disaster," muttered one Swede, waiting his turn in a Stockholm queue. In the south, some desperate Swedes were even hopping ferries across to Denmark to seek relief...
...niftiest pair of legs since Sugar Ray Robinson. One day in February 1961, he showed up in Miami, where Ingemar Johansson was training for his third fight with Floyd Patterson. Could he spar a little? Cassius asked innocently, and proceeded to dance rings around Johansson. The big Swede went into a slow boil. "What does this kid do?" growled Johansson. "Ride a bicycle ten miles...