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What was the Scandinavians' secret? Said 38-year-old Birger Ruud, the old master who is non-jumping captain of Norway's team: "Of all a child's playthings, skis are the first gift in Norway, and the most important." In Norway they could also count on having snow...
...Rosenberg (nee Nielsen), 25, Copenhagen businessman's daughter for whom he last year renounced the title of Prince and the right of succession to the throne: their first children, twin sons, the first twins in the history of the Danish royal family; in Copenhagen. Names: Valdemar and Birger...
Nobody was more surprised than Kongsgaard himself. Although born in Kongsberg, Norway, birthplace of a long list of ski-jumping greats (including the Ruud brothers, Birger, Sigmund and Asbjörn), the 6-ft.-11 Norwegian does not take his skiing with professional seriousness. At 26, he is more anxious about getting good engineering marks at the University of Idaho, where he is an exchange student. Says Sverre, shrugging matter-of-factly: "Some things we must do; I have to study. Skiing is a diversion...
...Shelton and Birger gangs, roaming through bloody Williamson County in armored cars, blazed away at each other on sight, killed mayors and cops with abandon. But they did not annihilate each other. Birger was convicted of murder and hanged...
...After Birger's death, the Sheltons grew rich and prosperous, settled down on big farms. Bernie's was called Golden Rule Acres. Last week, Bernie got a fine funeral at Boland's mortuary in Peoria. He was laid out in a $3,000 bronze casket, got four roomfuls of flowers. But it looked as though the Sheltons were cooked. Old Earl was a nervous man; he kept looking sidewise and complained bitterly that the law was giving him no protection...