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Show Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. "NJEW YORK. Wollmar Filip ' Bostrom, Swedish minister to the United States, reached the retirement re-tirement age of 65 the other day, but A Sprtghty Chap right on e Like This Retire? job. With the That', Ridiculous "rl n topsy -turvy and with plenty of things to worry about elsewhere, his foreign office decided that this was no time to call in a man who had made good on a job for 17 years. Besides to a nation ruled over by an 85-year-old king, 65 isn't a bit old, anyway. Calvin Coolidge was in the White House and Frank B. Kellogg Kel-logg was secretary of state when the blue-eyed, ruddy cheeked envoy with the build of an athlete ath-lete arrived from Stockholm in February of '26. At Upsala university uni-versity in Sweden, where he was graduated in 1903, he had studied to be a lawyer, but he soon decided that the diplomatic service was his forte. He was sent first to the legation in Paris, but in 1907 King Gustav called him home to become his private secretary. In 1913 he went to the legation in London and was there during most of the last war. Just before coming to America, he was minister to Madrid. At Upsala, he had been a top notch performer at both hockey and tennis. In 1908 he represented Sweden in the Olympic games. He first began playing tennis with King Gustav as far back as 1900 and not so many years ago he and his monarch mon-arch won the doubles title in an "old boys' " tournament. On his 60th birthday, his wife snapped a photograph photo-graph of him when he was swinging upside down on the flying rings in a gymnasium. 'TpHTNGS are looking up for the -Allies on the Pacific front. Take It from Sir Owen Dixon, Australian minister to the United States. He returned to Envoy From Down Washington Under Heartened the other By a Visit Home ?? a"er trip home and should know. He had been away from Australia for 11 months and was delighted in the changes for the better he noted in that time. This tall, angular envoy from the underside of the world first took over his job here last year when Richard Casey moved on to the Middle Fast. He had had a distinguished career as a lawyer law-yer and a judge and had directed - some of his commonwealth's top . war boards shipping control, wool, war risk insurance before be-fore that. Born in a suburb of Melbourne 57 years ago, he made a brilliant record rec-ord at Melbourne university. He won his B.A. there in 1906 and his law degree two years later. His law practice mounted rapidly in size and Importance, and he was rated as one of the outstanding attorneys in the dominion when he was elevated to a judgeship in the supreme court of Victoria in 1926. Three years later lat-er he became justice of the high court of the commonwealth. With high forehead, keen eyes and graying hair, he looks every inch a man to hand down learned decisions. He has been addressed as Sir Owen for two years now. He is married and has four children, two boys and two girls. . T 1ST Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce ' among those who have great faith in what the Allied bombing raids will do to lick the Germans . ,7 aDd make Hard-Hitting Vet them want Backs Air Bombs peace for a To Soften Up Nazis l0D tim,e t0 come. Place him also among those who point out that there is no one-way street for air raiders. It's the latter thought, incidentally, which is his major concern con-cern at present, for he is now in command of the First Air Force of the U. S. army, and it's his job to protect the Atlantic coast from enemy en-emy planes. There isn't much about air combat and flying that this athletic ath-letic appearing, hard hitting veteran vet-eran doesn't know, for he's been at it a long time. Since 1915, in fact. That was the year after he won his first commission at West Point. He flew for Pershing Persh-ing In the brush with Mexico in '16 and again in World War I. He came home from France with a Croix de Guerre and some staff experience at the general's headquarters. His fame as a flier did not wane with the Armistice, however. In 1930, while at Selfridge Field in his native Michigan, he won the Mackey medal for leading a midwinter test flight of planes out to the Pacific coast and back. His ships froze up en route, but he borrowed a railway locomotive, hooked up a steam hose, and got them going again. He has won the DSC and DFC in the present war. He gained the former for-mer by his spectacular raid on the Japs in the Philippines from a secret base In the islands in the spring of 1942. I |