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...studied at Uppsala for 20 years-at Aunt Hildur's private school, where he learned the three Rs and collected bugs in a bottle; at the sternly classical high school, where one of his classmates was Jarl Hjalmarson, now the leader of the Swedish Conservative Party. At Uppsala University Dag took a B.A., majoring in philosophy and French literature. He is also a bachelor of laws and a doctor of economics. Dag was a brilliant scholar; he had little time for social life. In his 205, he wrote a paper called Konjunktur-spridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle...
...unmarried, are admitted to hospitals each year for legal abortions. A professor at Stockholm's largest women's clinic was reported for "cruelty" because he told a patient that the abortion she was about to have was the same as murdering one of her previous children. An Uppsala doctor was called a "fascist" in letters to the press because he made the statement that Sweden loses the equivalent of one regiment a year through
...ball feting French air cadets in Sweden's university city of Uppsala, Lieut. General Axel Ljungdahl, chief of the Swedish air force, executed some fancy foot maneuvers with the eldest daughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf, glamorous Princess Margaretha, 20, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelor girls...
Most of the letters, according to the expert, were typed on the Halda-a machine Helander borrowed from Uppsala's theological faculty and carried with him to Strangnas when he went to take up residence there as bishop. Then, he explained, someone ruined the type-perhaps trying to clean them with a steel brush-and he took it to Stockholm for repair...
Meanwhile, the Uppsala faculty was after its machine. Instead of returning the Halda with new type, Helander bought another and sent it along. Though the serial number was similar, the porter noticed the difference and called it to the attention of the dean, who asked Helander for the original. Why the substitution? He did not want the dean to know he had broken the machine, Helander said...