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...WOULD BE GOD (449 pp.)-Haakon Chevalier-Putnam...
...Haakon) I. (for Ingolf) Romnes, 52, was elected president of Western Electric Co., manufacturing arm of A. T. & T., to succeed the late Arthur B. Goetze. Son of a Norwegian immigrant baker, Romnes went to work for the Bell System installing telephones during his senior year at the University of Wiscon sin, joined A. T. & T. when he graduated in 1928. Romnes became A. T. & T. chief of engineering in 1952, a vice president...
...Hills. In 1940, with the German might pouring over his beaches, King Haakon refused to appoint the traitor Quisling to the Norwegian premiership. He fled Oslo to the forbidding North, and, relentlessly pursued by the Nazis, twice narrowly escaped death. His forces held out for longer than those in any other Nazi-invaded country, and during the 62 days of resistance more Nazi soldiers were killed than there were men in the entire Norwegian army. Aboard a British cruiser, Haakon escaped at last to England, where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance...
Last week, long ill from complications resulting from a leg accident he suffered two years ago, just before his golden anniversary, King Haakon VII, devoted ruler of his adopted country for 52 years, died at 85. His successor: Crown Prince Olav, 54, his only son, who became commander of Free Norwegian forces in Britain during World...
Died. Christian Frederik Carl George Valdemar Axel, King Haakon VII, 85, Norway's only ruler since the country became independent in 1905, and the world's oldest reigning monarch; of a respiratory ailment; in Oslo (see FOREIGN NEWS...