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...state they call me the big, dumb Swede!" quipped lumbering Ed Johnson. His colleagues in the Senate were not much surprised to hear this; they had known Colorado's Big Ed for nine years. Nevertheless, they suffered him to delay passage of the $3.75 billion British loan for two hours while he groped around in parliamentary irrelevancies...
...tenth day, a powerful Swede, Adolph ("The Machine") Carlson, strode in, bowled his eight consecutive games. He always took three small steps, kept his eye on the head pin (he claims watching a spot on the alley is amateur stuff), threw a slow, curving ball. The Swede's score mounted, took the lead. Then Carlson sweated it out until the last ball rumbled down the alleys this week...
...total of 1,652 was good enough to earn the first cash prize ($5,100) and a diamond medal (value $600). It was something Swede Carlson had waited for since he was second-best in the Petersen Classic, 21 years...
...Philadelphia, Army kicked off to Navy in the China Bowl game. It was strictly G.I.: 10,000 uniformed Americans jammed Shanghai's Canidrome (dog track). Navy won, 12-to-0. That made the day perfect for Navy's coach, craggy-faced, beaming Lieut. Commander Andrew James ("Swede") Oberlander, Dartmouth All-America, a football immortal of the golden...
...leave Sidney Wooderson's 4:04.2 as the mark for the world's milers to shoot at. It would also leave U.S. indoor track promoters, who had hoped to offer their customers a winter fare of Hagg and Andersson, facing an immediately bleak future. One Simon-pure Swede who might help to brighten the picture: Lennart Strand, a newcomer who has beaten both Hagg and Andersson in recent months-apparently on an empty stomach...