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Died. Frederick ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, 79, notorious GOPolitical boss of Chicago in its toughest, Al Capone-infested days; of a coronary thrombosis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An oldtime machine politician, Lundin was the power behind William Hale ("Big Bill') Thompson's 1915 election as mayor and Governor Len Small's infamous state administration...
Auctioned: household furnishings, bed clothes, paintings, childhood odds & ends of Greta Garbo; after seven years in storage; in Stockholm. On Garbo 's instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...
...main reason for the Blue successes this year is embodied in their attack duo of Swede Larsen and Winnie Lovejoy. This combine has been unstoppable so far this year and is expected to be the main threat to Harvard's chances for undisputed possession of the runner-up position in the league standings...
...last week a tall, powerfully built man stepped out of the board room at T.W.A. headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., peeled off his coat, shouted to a friend, "I feel pretty good now, Swede, let's wrestle." LaMotte Turck Cohu, 51, felt pretty good because he had just been elected president of T.W.A. to replace Jack Frye...
Anthropologists will put themselves to a lot of trouble to prove a pet theory. Last week, five Norwegians and a Swede were making plans to sail westward from Callao, Peru, on a seagoing raft. They were taking many of the same chances as their theoretical primitives: the raft was modeled after the balsas of the ancient Peruvians. They hoped to prove that the South Pacific islands had been visited-perhaps partly peopled-by civilized Indians from South America...