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...Swedish official in a white sweater kissed her hand. Danny Kaye stopped to chat for a moment, and Art Linkletter, in a shaggy bearskin scrape, got a guffaw from Dick Nixon, and a comment: "Is this man or beast?" Then a stocky man in a blue-and-white Norwegian sweater came by. "I'm Bob Bennett," he said. "I'm sure you don't remember me, but I'd like to shake your hand." Replied Pat, without a moment's hesitation: "Of course I remember you. You were our campaign manager in Tulare County...
...astonished Norwegian Foreign Office hurriedly arranged a program for Mikoyan, and wondered what important object the wily Anastas had in mind. In his first speech in Norway, Mikoyan declared that the Soviet Union had never attacked any country (Finnish, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian papers, please copy) and would not attack Norway either. Turning to Prime Minister Gerhardsen, he asked: "Can you promise me the same?" Said one stunned Norwegian: "Has Mikoyan come here simply to get a promise that Norway will not attack the Soviet Union...
Then Mikoyan went off to address the Norwegian Students Association. As he labored through a recital of Russia's peaceful intentions, Mikoyan remarked that the Czechs had chosen Communism of their own free will. A Norwegian student got to his feet, said: "Excuse me, Deputy Premier. Do you also mean that the Hungarian people have chosen Communism by free will? We have many Hungarian students here at the university, and they don't agree with...
...perhaps just square, except for one good touch: a huge grid of prison bars spanned the stage and rose slowly as the light came up on the liberation scene. But the rest of Director Herbert Grof's production was dull and conventional. As Leonore, the faithful wife, Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo Loevberg showed neither the vocal nor the dramatic power her taxing role demanded. In minor roles, Soprano Laurel Hurley and Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco...
...Life Scout, captain of the debating team (his coaching methods were successful enough to propel his kid sister into the state declamation championship), and, inevitably, he was class valedictorian. A talent for leadership, too, was early manifest : at the frequent reunions of his mother's multitudinous Norwegian family*-there were eleven aunts and uncles, almost 60 first cousins-it was invariably young Hubert who organized the younger element into social activity...