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...Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Clarence Crafoord and Erik Jorpes of Stockholm told how they injected heparin (made from the lungs and livers of cattle) in 325 middle-aged patients who had had serious operations...
...newspaperman, Erik Seidenfaden, 30-year-old editor on Copenhagen's rich, conservative Politiken, son of a Copenhagen police commissioner, took off from a Danish airport in a chartered plane and turned his nose northward over the grey waters of the Kattegat toward Norway. Reporter Seidenfaden, like many another Dane, was curious about a long line of Nazi warships, mine sweepers, transports which had been steaming slowly through the Great Belt...
...nearest wireless office, and put his news on the air. A few hours later he escaped to Stockholm. His dispatch was the first definite information that the German fleet was moving on Norway. Luck, enterprise and brains, the three ingredients of newspaper beats, last week had given Erik Seidenfaden the first beat of the new war in the north. Mysterious Invasion...
Like Russian Ambassador Maisky, Norwegian Minister Erik Colban was kept busy in London last week hot-footing it around to the Foreign Office to protest fresh indignities suffered by his country at the hands of Great Britain, in her course of trying to throttle Germany. British aircraft had flown over Norwegian territory scouting for German ships using Norway's coastal sea lanes. British warships had entered Norwegian water to sink German ships. One of them fired a shot across a German's bow and the shell landed ashore, albeit unexploded, near the Varhaug railway station on Norway...
...though their country has been ruled by both Sweden and Russia, were never subdued by anybody. The first Mannerheim of record was a Swedish merchant named Marheim, of Dutch or German descent, who died in 1667. His grandson picked up a title and his son, who was named Carl Erik Mannerheim, moved to Finland as a major in an infantry regiment and was condemned to death (later pardoned) for participating in an officers' revolt against the Crown. The next Mannerheim was a judge and entomologist and the next one started out as a spoiled intellectual rebel and ended...