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Last week, on his home track at Malmö, the gangling Swede bounced back to stardom. With arch-rival Arne Andersson as opposition and a heat wave to loosen his muscles, Hägg ran on the ragged edge of the magic four-minute mile. His 4:01.4 was world record time (1.2 seconds better than Andersson's mark made two years ago over the faster Stockholm track...
Knauth will see and report plenty of fighting in his new assignment-but war cables to TIME'S Battlefronts editors are just part of his job. He speaks fluent German, of course, with so little accent most Germans take him for a Swede-tell him things they might hesitate to hint to an American. So Knauth's main work will be with the German people. He will talk with as many of them as he can, and pass on what he hears to TIME'S editors-so that TIME can bring its readers a better understanding...
...Gunder Hägg stepped to the front at the three-quarter mark, lasted just long enough to win by a yard in 4:16.7, waltz time. He had one more chance on the schedule to hit his stride ? at Buffalo this week. His fans wondered if the speedy Swede hadn't just come over for the ride...
...bosses had got hold of something new and good: large-scale night fire-bombing of Japan's cities. The top planning had been done in Washington under Brigadier General Lauris O. ("Swede") Norstad, chief of staff of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force. Then the details were left to Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay, who had the field command and with it, the tactical responsibility, as head of the 21st Bomber Command in the Marianas...
...long-haired and hollow-cheeked as ever, 157-lb. Gunder the Wunder had added an American "O.K." to his vocabulary and, more important, he had a brand-new public-relations approach. Far from being the uncooperative, stubborn Swede who visited the U.S. two years ago, this time he seemed bent on pleasing. Said he to reporters in his best Garbo accent: "Because you have been waiting so long for me ... I shall run Saturday" (just 50 hours after stepping off the ship). He knew, of course, that it meant almost certain defeat in the I.C.4-A Invitation Mile...