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...jayvees, impersonating Harvard's plays, gave the varsity a rough time all afternoon, and contact work was sluggish. Swede Larson and Win Lovejoy, second and third-string centers, appear definitely out of Saturday's game. Bobby Raines, star halfback, was banged up in today's scrimmage, but should see some service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hickman Works on Eli Morale in Long Drill | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Regular fullback and end Ferd Nadherny and Brad Quackenbush, both incapacitated last week, will be ready to go and second string center Swede Larsen is expected to see some service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hickman Confident As Yales Prepare Finale | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

This year, the five Swedish professors who form the committee that picks the Nobel Prizewinners in physics and chemistry debated long and secretly. One of the leading candidates was a Swede, and the Swedish committee did not want to be accused of favoritism. Last week they announced their decision: Sweden's Professor Arne Tiselius, 46, of Uppsala University, got the $44,371.63* prize in chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Tall, strikingly handsome and always immaculately dressed, Professor Tiselius speaks 'English with about the same accent as a Minnesota Swede. Students at Uppsala affectionately call him "the film star professor." His official hobbies are sailing, modern art, music, literature. His unofficial hobby: making model aircraft with Per, his 14-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobelmen | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...Colorado, U.S. Senator Ed C. Johnson, whose friends and foes alike call him "the big dumb Swede," flattened former Democratic State Chairman Eugene Cervi in the Democratic primary, carrying every county in the state. In November "Big Ed" will face a tougher threat to his 26-year-old record of always winning Colorado elections. His opponent will be Will Faust Nicholson, 48, who astonished professionals by defeating John C. Vivian, twice governor and one of the state's most formidable Republicans. A tall, gangling man of immense energy and no side, Nicholson had never before run for political office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: In the Semi-Finals | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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