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...sped down the runway, soared off the lip of the tower and jackknifed forward in the long dive into space. When it was all over, Norway had done it again; six of the first eight places had gone to Norwegians. The champ: a 21-year-old Norwegian farmer, Hans Björnstad, who made jumps of 224 and 223 ft. Sixth place went to former U.S. Amateur Champion Artie Devlin of Lake Placid. His jumps of 220 and 219 ft. were second only to Björnstad's for distance, but they lacked the flawless style of the best...
Punishments. Björling, a neutral, was one of Europe's few front-rank musicians who got through the war without either suffering or collaborating with the enemy...
...Metropolitan Opera's under-lunged Italian tenor wing has been huffing & puffing, in a vain attempt to bring the house down, ever since 1941. That was when the Met's Swedish mainstay, Jussi Björling, was refused a transit visa to cross Nazi-occupied countries. Björling stayed in Sweden, packed the red and gold Royal Opera House in Stockholm. Last week 34-year-old Tenor Björling reached the U.S. by plane, the first European artist to return to the Met's roster since the war began...
Result: on June 17 Iceland will formally become a republic. Almost certain to be the first president: bulky, stern-faced, U.S.-minded Sveinn Björnsson, 63, the island's regent since...
...shortage in its chief stock in trade, fine voices. Unexpected blows last season were the loss of its greatest artist and box-office draw, Kirsten Flagstad (holed up or held up in Norway); its next-best Wanerian soprano, Marjorie Lawrence (victim of paralysis); Tenors Jussi Björling (stranded in Sweden) and Tito Schipa (recalled to Italy). Like a consistently losing team, the Met did not attract packed grandstands...