Garbo plays the 17th-century queen of Sweden, a single ("I shall die a bachelor"), war-weary, workaholic monarch who enjoys cross-dressing at local taverns and dreaming about the joys of private life ("I'm tired of being a symbol").
And it perhaps helps, although it certainly did not during his lifetime, that after the war this "bachelor" who "lived alone" – which many Daily Mail readers of the time would have correctly taken to imply he was homosexual – was subjected to persecution, prosecution and ultimately chemical castration, which may have led him to take his own life while still only 41.
Other outlets jokingly reduce him to caricature, the dashing war-hopping bachelor.
However, not many people are willing to kill for a bachelor's degree and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have given potential recruits a reminder that military service is more than just a way to pay for college.
He attended Purdue University before joining the military in 1941, and he returned for a bachelor's degree after World War II.
After the war, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in sociology at the University of Southern California and was a high school history teacher in Los Angeles.
Whitlam completed his studies after the war, obtained his Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to the federal and New South Wales bars in 1947.
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However, not many people are willing to kill for a bachelor's degree — and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have given potential recruits a reminder that military service is more than just a way to pay for college.
Following the war, Adams completed a bachelor's degree in modern history at Oxford (1948).
After the war he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Chicago.
