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That night and next morning, German expeditionary forces steamed into Narvik, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen, Oslo. At Narvik German destroyers coming in through a snowstorm sank two old Norse coast defense ships at their moorings and one armed British ship, before they could fire a shot. At all other ports except Oslo and Kristiansand, landings were made without fighting...
...narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling, the No. 1 Nazi Fifth Columnist at Oslo, got the invaders past the harbor guards at Bergen...
weekday radio entertainers (just behind Sunday top-liners Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen) are an old time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They...
...Unless the British can get the Germans out of Norway before they have an opportunity to fortify Bergen, the key-point of this campaign, the Allies may never drive them out of Scandinavia. This is dangerous since Molotoff of Russia has been working silently on the repair of the Finnish railroad which has a direct connection with the railroads of Sweden...
Arriving in Bergen, Norway, by ship, but accompanied by an airplane and mechanic, Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "Black Eagle" of Harlem, announced that he had come to fight for Finland but, since the Finnish war had been concluded 24 days before, would offer his services if Finland was again attacked...