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...would be hard to find three more dissimilar business associates than Bror Dahlberg, Walter S. Mack Jr. and Wallace Groves. Mr. Dahlberg is a smoothfaced, vigorous Swede of 58 who collects Napoleonana, has an ornate office almost as big as Hitler's, runs his business with cosmic scope. Mr. Mack is a relaxed Harvardman with intense blue eyes and nonchalance about money; he likes to consider himself a sort of clinicist for big business. Mr. Groves is a bald, shy Southerner whose financial talents have earned him several million dollars, a reputation as "silent man of Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Design for Making Money | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Victors in their last two league encounters, the Quakers will start Tony Mischo and Chuck Diven at the forwards, Swede Gustafson at center, and Captain Pace Brickley and Gerry Sneeders in the backcourt. Harvard's starters are slated to be Charley Lutz, Fred Heckel, Homer Peabody, Capt. Luplen and Sam (jitterbug) White...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: FESLERMEN BATTLE QUAKERS TONIGHT | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

Another worry to the Quakers is that center Swede Gustafson has not yet rounded into shape after the stiff football campaign. Coach Jourdet's five misses him, because it has no other sixfoot starters...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: LEAGUE HOOPSTERS HASTEN PRACTICE | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

...Batchelder. Captain Moose Dudis holds forth at the pivot post, and his six-foot six and an a half inch frame should raise havoc in league competition. The Indians miss Cottone at forward, but they still entertain hopes that he will soon report for practice. In the meantime, Gus "Swede" Broberg, the Sophomore sensation has a strangle hold on one forward...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: Indian Hoopmen Have Good Chance of Keeping Title in Intercollegiate Loop | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...after a tiff over a salary cut, the Metropolitan had been chewing its tenor arias with bare gums. Thirty years ago when the Met had Caruso, Bonci and Slezak, Tenor Bjoerling would have been as superfluous as a wisdom tooth. But as the French poet Rodolfo in La Boheme, Swede Bjoerling took his top notes in the best Italian manner. His hearers chortled as if they had never heard his like before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debutantes' Thrills | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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