Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play As Prologue. Last week the battle was joined at Sloane Square's Royal Court Theatre, a small auditorium where advanced people gather to witness advanced plays. The current offering was The Tenth Chance, a first play by 25-year-old Stuart Holroyd, about a Norwegian resistance leader in World War II. By the middle of the last act, Holroyd's agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb...
Died. Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, 79, daughter of Frederik VIII of Denmark, widow of Prince Carl (who turned down the Norwegian crown), mother-in-law of Norway's King Olaf V and Denmark's Prince Axel; in Stockholm...
...voice has lost remarkably little of its magnificent luster, still has a meltingly eloquent sensuousness and superb dramatic projection. Widowed (since 1946) Soprano Flagstad was recently appointed director of the new Norwegian Opera, will be the only woman running a major opera house in Europe. "It is not natural to be singing at my age," she says, "but then I am not losing my voice. I just sing and sing, and it keeps me young...
wife of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Marjorie Elizabeth de Morgen-stierne, wife of the retired Norwegian ambassador (TIME...
William Howard Taft was President of the U.S. when Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne arrived in Washington as a junior attaché at the old Norwegian legation in 1910. Named Norway's Minister to the U.S. in 1934 and Ambassador in 1942, he saw the U.S. through seven other Presidents, three wars, depression and unprecedented prosperity. Last week, frail and bent at 70, Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, on the eve of his retirement paid a farewell visit to an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. As he left the White House, Morgenstierne offered some advice about...