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Died. Harold Knutson, 72, longtime Republican U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1917-49); of a heart ailment; in Wadena, Minn. Norwegian-born, he succeeded Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the flyer, in Congress, cast his first vote in 1917 against a declaration of war on Germany, was a leading isolationist before and after Pearl Harbor, stoutly fought the Democrats and all their works on almost every issue,* including the easing of immigration restrictions...
Among world oilmen, Norwegian-born Torkild ("Cap") Rieber, a hardfisted, hard-swearing ex-sailor, is an operator whose shrewd deals and big projects have made him something of a legend in the industry. It was Rieber who landed the famous Barco concession in Colombia for the Texas Co.. built a mile-high pipeline across the Andes, wangled a half-interest for Texaco in the rich Bahrein fields on the Persian Gulf. After he resigned as Texaco chairman in 1940. he carved a new career for himself as boss of Barber Oil Corp...
...after another, the field of 100-odd jumpers came soaring off the takeoff. Some of the jumpers windmilled their arms awkwardly in trying to keep balance (and lost form points); others misjudged their take-off timing (and lost distance points). Some of the best of them came croppers: Norwegian-born Art Tokle took a bad fall on his second jump, wound up eleventh; Denver University's Billy Olson, co-holder of the hill record (297 ft.), also spilled out of the running. The crowd saved its biggest cheers for U.S. Olympian Art Devlin-and Riisnaes...
Nightmare White. Last week a ski-equipped C-47 of the 10th Rescue Squadron ferried Fletcher, Captain Marion F. Brinegar and Norwegian-born Dr. Kaare Rodahl, Arctic expert, to T3. C-54 mother ships flew along to navigate and drop supplies. The only newsman on the expedition: LIFE Photographer George Silk...
...North Carolina's Hoey had given her the Hope Diamond to use as a paperweight. She answered all the committee's, questions. She was born in a part of Austria-Hungary which is now Czechoslovakia, came to the U.S. in 1939. She was married to a wealthy, Norwegian-born shipping man named Magnus Konow. In 1947, out of sheer vivacity and a desire to prove that she was not just a "sweet child," she had bought two ships herself and had, in her own words, become the world's only lady tanker operator...