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...stays, weakling (Edmond O'Brien) in his cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors, the bang-bang-bang that puts the audience out of its misery. Somewhere along the line this picture even manages to ring in a Swede who says, "By yumpin' yiminy!" In the main role Actor Ladd has achieved a certain originality: he has managed to break the strong, silent typecast he has so long been set in. In The Big Land he plays the weak, silent type...
...neither Gunnar nor any other ablebodied Swede would consider quitting the Vasa Run until legs or lungs gave out. For the history of the race runs all the way back to the start of Sweden's independence. It began in greater discouragement than Gunnar or his competitors ever knew. In the bitter winter of 1520, Gustav Eriksson Vasa, then 24 and a fugitive from a Jutland prison, came to Dalecarlia with news of the "Stockholm Blood Bath," a mass beheading of Swedish noblemen with which Christian II, already King of Denmark and Norway, had celebrated his coronation as ruler...
...stepped forward, the center of attention for Mamie, his son John in dress blues, and his four grandchildren, including 13-month-old Mary Jean (whom Ike had rescued from an upstairs room to come down to see the ceremony). Another Eisenhower guest was retired Navy Captain E. E. ("Swede") Hazlett, one of Ike's good friends from the early days back in Abilene, who once had waxed long and enthusiastically to a happy-go-lucky youngster named Ike about the delights of a service career. ("Calm, frank, laconic and sensible," Swede Hazlett once termed...
...much as anyone to raise meteorology to its present high estate is a likable, high-spirited, round-faced Swede named Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby. Most leaders of modern meteorology are friends or past pupils of Dr. Rossby's. The "Rossby parameter" is important in up-to-date forecasting, and the grandest movements of the atmosphere are called the "Rossby waves." The history of modern meteorology is inescapably paralleled by Rossby's career...
Disgrace did not last long. The year 1927 was a yeasty period; the public was crazy about aviation. Almost at once the Swede rejected by the Weather Bureau was picked up by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and sent to California to establish the first airway weather reporting system...