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...whole arid field of current U.S. literary criticism, few critics have successfully brought their acres to cultivation; most of the yield consists either of dried academic pods or fluttery reviewing that could thrive nearly as well on book jackets. Critic Edmund Wilson's small crop of evaluations (Axel's Castle, The Triple Thinkers, The Wound and the Bow) is the hardiest, the most varied and the one with the best chance of preservation. His new book, Classics and Commercials, is made up entirely of pieces written over the past ten years. No U.S. critic now writing could gather...
...federal district court, Antitrust Chief Herbert Bergson went after a small company which had closely held patents: Servel, Inc., sole maker of U.S. gas refrigerators. Charged Bergson: Servel has a monopoly on gas refrigerators, through exclusive licenses from Sweden's Aktiebolaget Electrolux, founded by International Financier Axel Wenner-Gren (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948). Bergson asked the court to break up the patent arrangement. Servel's Chairman Louis Ruthenburg retorted that his company already competed with "a dozen large manufacturers aggressively in the market with refrigerators of all types, sizes and prices...
This year Button, Lussi & Co. had sketched a corker: something called the double-double-Axel...
...Future. The garden variety of double-Axel, which was the Button sensation of 1949 in the free-skating event, requires the performer to come into the jump skating backwards. The rest of the requirements: a tremendous leap, 2½ body spins, a feather landing, and a smooth blade-cut left in the ice. Few skaters can think of attempting it; this year Button did two in a row, to make it a double-double without the slightest pause, covering 30 ft. in the whole involved maneuver in about two seconds. He was glad when the double-double was over. "Those...
Born. To Count Flemming of Rosenberg, 27, son of Prince Axel of Denmark, and Countess Ruth of Rosenberg (nee Nielsen), 25, Copenhagen businessman's daughter for whom he last year renounced the title of Prince and the right of succession to the throne: their first children, twin sons, the first twins in the history of the Danish royal family; in Copenhagen. Names: Valdemar and Birger...