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Americans think of Norway as a cold slice of northern forest and fjord, of Norwegian writers as weighty (like Sigrid Undset) or gloomy (like Knut Hamsun). But a Norwegian novel published this week is as different from this preconception as its author's startling name. It could have been written in any country of Europe...
STOREVIK-Gøsta af Geijerstam-Dutton ($2). Life on a Norway fjord: a bucolic Scandinavian approximation to the simplicity and fresh charm of Mrs. Roosevelt's column...
...little more than a slogan of mass snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples, for according to the laws of heredity two and two can often make five. The subject of race sounds much...
Norway. With Palestine, Malta and Egypt thus strongly dealt with last week, the next British move was to crack at Norway in the dispute over whales (TIME, Sept. 7). Britain's whaling fleet, which is normally manned by Norwegians, remained last week tied up in a fjord near Oslo. Both the Norwegian whalers' unions and the Norwegian Government maintained that British soapmakers, who own many of the whaling ships, want to kill whales at such a rate that the great mammals would soon be exterminated. London papers last week described the British Government as having decided to brandish...
...from the misty fjord of Bergen, Norway, one morning last week climbed a trimotored Junkers seaplane. For some 275 miles it buzzed north along the ragged Scandinavian coast to Nidaros (Trondhjem), then on for 300 miles across the Arctic Circle to Bodo, finally another 425 miles past Narvik and Tromso to the famed town of Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world, where it sliced into the harbor at 5:15. Thus, in the first trip of a daily service that will last until autumn, did Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurate the world's most northerly airline. Cost of ticket...