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Greta Garbo, the secretive Swede who has been in & out of Hollywood for 22 years, finally came to a decision. She pulled on some slacks and an old jacket, and dropped into the Los Angeles Federal Building to file her first papers, for U.S. citizenship...
...whose last movie was Two-Faced Woman for M-G-M in 1941, last week signed a contract to appear in one picture for Producer Walter Wanger. In the Garbo tradition, everybody connected with the deal promptly clammed up or looked studiously vague. Wanger, who first knew the shy Swede-when he produced Queen Christina for M-G-M in the '30s, admitted that it will probably be a period piece (know-it-alls said a biography of George Sand), shot "in Paris and Rome." Said Wanger, vaguely: "I had a couple of ideas she liked...
...thatch), Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, 23, tore into top-seeded Frank Parker. It produced the tennis upset of the year. Down went Parker, in five sets. But Bergelin's new look wasn't enough to get him by hard-hitting Bob Falkenburg in the quarterfinals. The Swede fell before Falkenburg's big serve...
...principal event of the dinner was to be the "Swede" Nelson sportsmanship award to place kicker Everett Dorr of Boston University, with another presentation scheduled for Harlow. When the time came, Dick rose slowly to receive his gift, a nautically mounted clock and barometer bearing the inscribed affections of the Gridiron Club of Greater Boston. Then he moved to the microphone, uncertainly it seemed, and quietly he began to speak...
...Nils V. (Swede) Nelson '20 paid a long tribute to the ex-coach in a later speech. The dinner featured Nelson's award to Boston University placekicked. Jim Britt was master of ceremonies...