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Poison Typewriters. An expert from Sweden's Central Criminal Laboratory testified "with nearly 100% certainty" that the letters were written on three typewriters-a Swedish Halda, a Royal and a Remington. All three were among those used by a group of assistants working for Helander at the university...
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...
...substitute Halda, the clerk who sold it to Helander reported that the bishop had quite a time selecting it, examining serial numbers and comparing the typing with that on a piece of paper he had brought with him. He also gave his name as "Georg Arvidsson from Sodertalje." Helander's explanation for the assumed name: he was shy by nature, and anyway, "we human beings don't all act like rational machines...
...Ottawa want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With U.S. pilots, they concentrated on detecting and bombing schnorkel submarines. This month, the Canadian destroyer Halda spent two weeks training in Chesapeake Bay, then sailed with a U.S. Navy amphibious force for a practice assault on the coast of Labrador...