Word: torsten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...
Sweden's two-man Davis Cup team-lean Lennart Bergelin and stocky little Torsten Johansson-finally reached the end of the line. Mostly hothouse trained on flossy indoor courts, they had managed with luck and Nordic determination to cop the European crown. Last week in the interzone final at Forest Hills, the U.S. squad blew the Swedes off the court, 5-0. U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer and ex-Champion Frank Parker breezed through their singles matches with the loss of just one set; National Doubles Champions Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy just squeezed out an 8-6 fifth...
Already several thousand subscriptions have poured in from a really remarkable group of Sweden's leaders-from Minister of Finance Ernst Wigforss and former Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler; from industrialists Sigfrid Edström and Torsten Hèrnod; from Managing Director Jacob Wallenberg of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank; and from such other well-known figures as the Countess Ebba Bonde, economist Gunnar Myrdal, and film director Victor Sjöström, who launched Greta Garbo...
Sweden: "A further proof of the Soviet Union's determination to fight to a victorious end on the side of the Allies against Fascist dictatorships" (from Torsten Kreuger's strongly anti-Communist Aftonbladet...
...Anna Holm, Miss Crawford has borne her disfigurement since childhood, frightful to look at, she has turned crimnal to take revenge on a society which doesn't want her. Then she encounters a man who is not repelled by her ugliness-criminal aristocrat named Torsten Barring (Conrad Veidt...