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Norway's morose Haakon VII could thank his stars that in 1934 his Kingdom enjoyed the largest export business since the War, nearly double the volume for 1933. Down in Copenhagen hard-jawed Christian X felt safer because Danish workmen, mostly ardent Socialists, are now only 18% enrolled upon the dole, a magnificent drop from...
...Guest Kings: Norway's tall, brooding Haakon VII and Denmark's taller, cheerful Christian...
Norway's devout. Democratic King Haakon VII received in audience Rev. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, who had taken his Oxford Groups to Oslo for a House Party...
Birthdays. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the 26th U. S. President, 73; Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy, 68; King Haakon of Norway, 62; General Hugh Samuel Johnson...
...Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large sad grey eyes that stare intensely past the person he is talking to, Andre Malraux loves to talk, but never about himself. Says his friend and translator Haakon Chevalier, after sitting in on conferences with Paul Yalery, Count Keyserling, Aldous Huxley, Jules Romains and some 20 other leading European intellectuals: ''I can honestly say that not one of them could match Malraux for verbal artistry, for penetrating impromptu analysis of a wide range of subjects...