Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bureau of an interview with Dr. Santiago Peralta, Director of Migration in the Peron government. An interview which, on the anniversary of the end of World War II, sounded the first Fascist call to arms for World War III. Peralta announced bluntly that in the near future 1,000 Norwegian quislings would be allowed to enter and settle in the Argentine, and went on to say that arrangements have almost been completed whereby General Anders' notorious Polish Army would also be granted admission...
Marjorie Bertha Morgenstierne, daughter of Norwegian Ambassador Wilhelm, was awarded a title that seemed almost too much for one young girl to shoulder. Judges at a beauty contest in Washington picked her as Miss United Nations...
Died. Dr. Albert Soiland, 73, radiologist and cancer fighter; of a heart attack; in Stavanger, Norway. Starting 63 years ago as a Norwegian immigrant, he made a rags-to-riches rise in medicine, founded two schools (American College of Radiology, Los Angeles Tumor Institute), dedicated his near-million-dollar life earnings to cancer research...
Sonja Henie's success in the U.S. failed to cut any ice with the Norwegian press; a writer for Oslo's Verdens Gang tartly summed up her aid to her native land during the German occupation: "On the whole, she didn't do anything...
...Remember Mama. Picturesque, nostalgic pages from a Norwegian-American family album (TIME...