Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past 50 years, five potential heirs have dropped out of the succession for the crown of Sweden (usually by marrying commoners). The Kingdom of the Goths and the Wends has scarcely felt their defection. For 41 years the same comfortable King* has sat on Sweden's throne, the same scholarly Crown Prince stood patiently by. Last week, as half a million Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm to cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach...
...Paris painter of nudes and titles; the slick-haired Belgian impresario, Jean-Jacques Fortis; and, peering recklessly through enormous horn-rimmed glasses, Marilyn Buferd, Miss America of 1946. They were face to face with an international incident. The Stockholms-Tidningen had just demanded the elimination of platinum blonde Miss Sweden on two grounds: 1) she had once been elected Miss China in a Stockholm cabaret contest, and 2) she wasn't a miss; she was a missus, married to an Italian. Rebutted Miss Sweden: "I was elected Miss China in 1941 at Stockholm's biggest vaudeville house, which...
...Israeli and Arab capitals. It was a white Dakota plane, with red crosses painted on the wings and body. The wings also bore, in bold, black letters, the words "United Nations" in English and French. The plane's principal passenger was 53-year-old Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, president of the Swedish Red Cross and U.N. mediator for Palestine. His mission was to win Jewish and Arab acceptance of a cease-fire agreement...
...Aviv a grey bemedaled uniform. He also brought considerable Red Cross experience as an intermediary between belligerents. In World War II he had arranged an exchange of disabled German and British prisoners of war, later persuaded the Nazis to send some 15,000 Norwegian and Danish hostages to Sweden...
...Sweden's Prince Bertil, third in line for the throne, arrived in Chicago for the Swedish Pioneer Centennial, crammed his 6 feet, 200 pounds into a midget racing car for a spin around the track at Soldier Field. He explained why he had not yet married at 36: "I take things very easily...