Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opera-loving San Franciscans, it was the nearest thing to an earthquake since 1906. It was bad enough that the trustee of the War Memorial Opera House had refused to let Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad sing there next season (TIME, July 25). Last week the sponsoring Opera Association Board set off a temblor of its own: if Flagstad could not sing, for the first time in 27 years there would be no opera season...
Around a crude wooden table in an austere schoolroom sat nine men: an Englishman, a Dutchman, an Indian, a Norwegian, a Czech, two Germans, and two Americans. Their debate was on a major matter: What should the Protestant churches do about the Communist attack on religious freedom in Eastern Europe? (For the Vatican's stand on the same question, see INTERNATIONAL...
Into the Parlor. Last year Olsen & Johnson invaded Europe to satisfy a lifetime ambition to play in Scandinavia (Olsen is of Norwegian descent; Johnson, Swedish). They were so successful in London that the show never got to the Continent. One Hellzapoppin road company is still in England; another is touring New Zealand. Both men have invested their huge earnings (they grossed $227,000 in 16 nights in Chicago; $387,000 in 14 days in Toronto) in real estate and in such enterprises as a string of frozen-custard stands on Long Island and an ice-skating rink in California...
...Bismarck, all right. There, in Grimstad Fiord on the Norwegian coast, lay the new Nazi 50,000-ton battle-wagon-bigger and tougher than any British battleship afloat. The British Admiralty had been worrying about the German giant for months; now that she had slipped away from her Baltic anchorage, the Home Fleet would have a crack at her at last. When Flying Officer Suckling photographed the Bismarck from his Spitfire on a May afternoon in 1941, he touched off the greatest sea hunt in naval history...
Born. To Vera Zorina (Brigitta Hartwig Lieberson), 32, Berlin-born Norwegian prima ballerina turned musicomedienne (I Married an Angel, Louisiana Purchase), and Goddard Lieberson, 38, vice president and member of the board of directors of Columbia Records, Inc.: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Jonathan Sears. Weight...