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...again, on-again Gunder ("The Wunder") Hägg finally arrived in the U.S. last week. He did not swim over, as Manhattan newsmen had been suggesting he must be doing, during their month-long vigil at the docks; the speedy Swede came on a slow freighter, and he had sore feet from training-trots he made on the boat's steel decks...
Among the ace runners who have volunteered to race the treadmill are Glenn Cunningham, Gil Dodds, Gene Fenske, and Gunder Haegg. Haegg astounded the doctors by turning in a better performance running 11 miles an hour than an ordinary man can at seven. They described the lanky Swede as "the most beautiful running machine" they had seen...
...Swedes, to Danes, were models of drunkenness. "Full som Svensker" "Drunk as a Swede," is the Danish phrase...
...breezy giant entered Chicago politics in 1900 on a bet; in 1915 he was elected mayor by the largest plurality ever counted in any U.S. city up to that time. "Big Bill" was frequently accused of pro-Germanism during World War I. By 1919 he and Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin had built a political machine second to none; Thompson coasted to a second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected on a promise to "punch King George's snoot" if that worthy ever visited Chicago, he found the city...
...young (45), blue-eyed Swede named Gunnar Myrdal landed in the U.S. in 1938 to make a fresh, thorough and impartial study of American Negroes. After five years of research, assisted by a staff of some 75 Carnegie Corporation-financed helpers, Sweden's Myrdal found that his whole ambitious project hinged on one simple question: "What goes on in the minds of white Americans?" Last week he published his complex, 1,483-page answer, called it An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Harper; 2 vols...