Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1954-07-01
News In Brief

- The American Embassy in
Stockholm on June 2 inaugurated
its new headquarters, an imposing
structure with facades of glass,
aluminium and grey Swedish gra-
mite. Located on a hill in the
Djurgarden Park, the building was
designed by two Americans work
ing with the Stockholm architect
Anders Tengbom. The furniture
was designed by Knoll Associates
in New York and made by the
Nordiska Kompaniet department
store in Stockholm, which also is
responsible for the textiles.
= Twenty foreign students re-
Gently passed their examinations
in Swedish at the International
Graduate School of the University
of Stockholm. They have been in
Sweden nine months, and aside
from the Swedish language they
have studied political science,
economy, and sociology. To prove
how we'll they had merited their
diplomas, four of the students de-
livered addresses in faultless
Swedish at the commencement
exercises. The majority were
Americans, but there were also
a few students from Iran and
Ethiopia.
= Training of television per-
sonnet and similar preparations
for the introduction of television
have now become part of the ac-
Invites of the Swedish Broadcast
ing Company. An amount of
$50, 900 kronor has been set aside
for the purpose. Stockholm had
it's first look at television about a
month ago, when the private San
drew studios sponsored "TV
week." Nearly 1900 TV sets were
in use in and around Stockholm.
In the southernmost province of
Skane many persons pick up the
Danish programs.
Birger Sandzen, noted Swed-
ish-American artist, died June 10
in his home in Lindsborg, Kansas,
at the age of SO. He had been pro-
fessor of aesthetics and painting
at Bethany College, in Lindsborg,
from 1894, the year of his arrival
in the United States from Sweden,
until 1945 when he retired. A pro-
life painter and photographer, he
is best known for his oils and
drawings of Americas Southwest.
He exhibited in many cities in the
United States and in Europe, and
his art is represented in the Ma
tional Museum in Washington,
and other public and private gal
! leries.
- DR.. Gideon Sundback, inven-
tor of the upper fastener, died in
Meadville, Pennsylvania, on June
81. He was born in Sweden in
1880 and came to America in 1908.
= A great many American stu
dy groups 60 to Scandinavia this
summer. On June IS twenty-four
rank and-file members of the CLIO
left for three-week visit to Swe-
den, Norway and Denmark. This
Labor Education Workshop" is
now in its third year, and trade
unions both in the u. S. and in
! Scandinavia have shown such in
terest that the project probably
will become an annual exchange.
Financially it is based on a
UNESCO grant and on contribu-
tons from the CLIO. and the labor
declarations in Sweden, Norway
and Denmark. Another study
group, a Field Workshop in An
thropology" organized by the de-
partment of educational sociology
of New York University, will leave
for Scandinavia on July /. Be-
tween fifty and sixty participants
are expected. The group will spend
twenty days in Sweden and also
visit Denmark and Norway, study
ing geography, history and anthro-
pology, arts and handicrafts, mu-
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