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...year-old Skandinaviska Bank. Ranging from a new highly computerized branch at Sundsvall in the northern timberland to a modest cottage draped with a fishing net on the island of Tjorn, Skandinaviska's 284 branches thoroughly cover the country. While assiduously courting the rural shepherds and woodsmen, it does not overlook the city folk, either at home or abroad. In the heart of Stockholm, it has for the past two years been bulldozing away hills and laying girders for an eleven-story stone-and-glass palace of money that is currently Sweden's biggest construction job. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: Bankers to the World | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...original 14 who showed at Florence were soldiers. Using portable easels and small canvases, they painted things that academicians shuddered at-prostitutes, troop maneuvers and barefoot peasantry. Then they turned to the subject matter that early French impressionism grew fat upon: landscapes populated by rocks and sheep, woodsmen warming in a shack, wheat harvests, the faces of peasants-all done in the subdued tonalities of their dulcet quattrocento ancestors, Fra Angelico, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. This week in Manhattan, a show of 92 works goes on view at the American Federation of Arts Gallery; to many viewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The New-Found Island | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Carnival no longer takes place during inter-session) and that there was just not enough snow. Nevertheless, festivities have increased in scale since the first Carnival, whose purpose was "to provide the added attraction of women, something foremost in the minds of even the most wild and wooly woodsmen." Fred Harris, founder of the Outing Club, which is one sponsor of the weekend, believed that young ladies would foster young men's propensity to enjoy the great outdoors...

Author: By Judith Blitman and Joanna Burnstine, S | Title: Winter Carnival: Reflections of a Mad Age | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

Dartmouth took its eventual lead in the sixth when the woodsmen batted around, knocking out McGinnis. A walk and an error by Bob Hastings set the stage for Ralph Manuel's home run to right, and a double steal that caught reliever Bob McGinnis napping scored the seventh...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Green Edges Crimson, 7-6 | 5/9/1957 | See Source »

Today the invading woodsmen bring an undefeated record to Soldiers Field, as their 2-0 mark is the only pure slate besides Yale's. Repetto may oppose Van Riper again, but the more probable Green choice is righthander Ron Judson, whose fine curve ball is sometimes offset by a tendency to wildness...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Nine to Face Dartmouth | 5/8/1957 | See Source »

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