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...Patent Office refused an application for a stove patent because Emanuel Swedenborg had invented an identical stove 200 years before. The unlucky stove-inventor was one of a myriad of scientists & inventors anticipated by this versatile 18th Century Swede. When his 60-odd scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before...
...again to the enigmatic figure of Lenin, writes of him with an historian's objectivity rather than with a newshawk's interest in a spectacular figure. He insists on Lenin's cold colorlessness, even while relating how Lenin plotted to disguise himself as a deaf-&-dumb Swede in order to return to Russia; how he escaped arrest by hiding successively in a loft, a hut in a hayfield, a railway locomotive; how still in hiding, he began a theoretical work on the State just as the revolution approached its climax...
...ladies who can count their medals few can finger so many that ring true as Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced Lahgerlef). A Swede who, in spite of international temptations, has remained stoutly Scandinavian, she has won her country's Nobel Prize (1909) without the slightest implication of local favoritism. She has written not only an international classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains...
Elvert Carlstrom. a young Swede, appeared with a Hauptmann alibi for the fatal night of March 11, 1932. He said he had gone from Dunellen, N. J., where he was employed as a caretaker, to The Bronx to see a girl named "Esther." He went to Christian Fredericksen's bakery-restaurant, which he used to patronize when he lived nearby, with a man named "Larsen." In the restaurant, he distinctly remembered seeing Hauptmann sitting at a table. When the State began questioning him, Carlstrom could not recall "Esther's" last name or "Larsen's" first...
...Chicago Bears. Minnesota's Jack Manders, also a Bear, is a field goal expert who has only missed one point after touchdown in 31 tries this season. But the majority of able professionals, like Detroit's Earl ("Dutch") Clark, who has scored 73 points this season, Philadelphia's Swede Hanson and Detroit's Glenn Presnell, were unknown nationally until they took to the gridiron for money...