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...record of standing up to the Russians in Berlin, Brandt is invulnerable to the usual charge that German Socialists are "soft" on Communism. So Christian Democrats are attacking Brandt on other grounds-charging that during World War II, Willy Brandt was "anti-German," even fought against Germans in the Norwegian army...
...right-wing newspaper, the Neue Presse of Passau, added a few more accusations-that Brandt fought with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; that he served in the Norwegian army and even fired on German troops; and that after the war, Brandt referred to Germans as "criminals." Brandt sued for libel...
...Jersey carpenter, Art Tokle belongs to one of skiing's most remarkable families. His father was a Norwegian mining official, who raised every one of his 20 children in the sport, and skied himself until he was well past 70. Torger Tokle, Art's older brother, came to the U.S. in 1939 and gained sudden fame with a hellbent, arm-flailing style that looked atrocious but won him a flock of national meets before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945. Kyrre Tokle, another older brother, was still jumping in informal meets...
When dimpled Skating Star Sonja Henie, 48, got married for the third time in 1956, she made it clear that some changes would have to be made in her new husband's life. Norwegian Shipowner Niels Onstad, 51, had been collecting modern paintings for 25 years, and the walls of his Manhattan apartment were covered with them. "If I am going to move in here, you'll have to get rid of these ghastly paintings," said Sonja. "You'll get used to them," answered Onstad patiently. Now Sonja Henie is not only used to modern painting...
...collection ranges from the Norwegian Edvard Munch to Canada's Pollock-like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...