Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Gustaf of Sweden, 86, who has played tennis indoors two or three times a week all winter, celebrated his new title as Sweden's longest-reigning monarch (37 years, 3 months, 24 days) by arranging an outdoor match at Drottningholm Castle...
...born in Milwaukee. Her Russian musician father and Egyptian mother-gypsies both -took her to China, India and Europe (where on cold nights Gypsy slept with the bear cubs). At 14 she was playing a secondhand accordion in a Chicago nightspot. She has played in Paris, in Sweden (before King Gustaf), in Egypt (before Farouk), in Washington (for President Roosevelt...
Nothing about Gunder ("The Onetime Wunder") Hägg's trip to the U.S. had run on schedule. He had arrived from Sweden four weeks ago on a big buildup and rubbery legs. He promptly lost three races while trying to nurse his soft calf muscles back into shape. Last week, gangling Gunder finally salvaged a blue ribbon...
Full Houses. In Stockholm, Sweden, a mother who had just given birth to her fifth child talked with two wardmates who had each had twins, discovered that all five children had the same father. In a Chattanooga tax office, a woman claimed five dependent children, "Two by my first husband, two by my second, and one by myself...
Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's second gifted gift to Hollywood, won the award for best cinema actress of 1944 for her performance in Gaslight. The year's best picture, Going My Way, drew Oscars for Best Actor Bing Crosby, double-threat star of radio and cinema (see RADIO), for Barry Fitzgerald as best supporting actor, and twice-Oscared Leo McCarey, for best directing and authoring the best original story. Lauding McCarey for helping "a broken-down crooner ... to win," Actor Crosby quipped: "Now if he'd find me a horse to win the Kentucky Derby, it would...