Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden might be asked to neutralize the Narvik area to hold back the Allies in return for a German promise to leave the earth unscorched. That could be done only with the approval of the British and of exiled Norwegian King Haakon...
Sombre Man. Erect, frail, handsome Edvard Munch came from a family of civil servants, well established in Norwegian cultural circles. A beautiful but weak child, young Edvard stopped school early to study art. He traveled in France and Italy on scholarships, studied under Pierre Bonnard at Paris...
When Norway's Government in Exile declared straight out last year that it would resign the minute Norway was free, and let the people choose new leaders, it set a stiff standard of conduct for homeless governments. Last week a distinguished Norwegian in Exile, Carl J. Hambro, president of Norway's Parliament, added another page to his country's wartime record of realism. Said Hambro...
Father of Technocracy. The dates and facts of Veblen's life will not be found in Duffus' graceful, charming, nostalgic memoir. A farm boy from a Norwegian settlement in Minnesota, Veblen had the habit of looking at the U.S. economic and social systems as though he were an aloof and coldly calculating anthropologist from another culture. He wrote sardonic books about the workings of the U.S. economy in a style that seems "desperately accurate" to some, a sort of elephantine, academic pig Latin to others...
...days when TIME was banned in Germany, banned in Italy, and banned in Japan for telling the truth too outspokenly, the fat No. 2 Nazi made a point of reading TIME regularly-and Adolf Hitler got a copy each week as the Trojan Horse gift of a truth-loving Norwegian who gave the Führer a subscription every Christmas as an antidote to his own oratory...