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...racking cross-country skiing championship, Farmer Gunnar Larsson had good reason to feel discouraged. He had tried the 50-mile grind in eight previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis had to be waxed carefully for cold snow. Later the trail wound into...
Black and white seem particularly appropriate to the Norwegian contemporary of Ibsen, Edvard Munch. The great expressiveness, the somber, even frightening quality of his colors-that-are-not-color blend with Munch's main preoccupations: death, passion, loneliness, and anxiety. As he noted in his diary, "No more painting of interiors with men reading and women knitting. They must be living people who breathe, feel, suffer and love. I will paint a series of such pictures in which people will have to recognize the holy element and bow their heads as though in church." The Graphic art which paralleled...
Died. Harry ("The Lunchbox") Lundeberg, 55, big (6 ft. 2½ in., 190 lbs.), barnacle-encrusted boss (since 1936) of the right-wing A.F.L. Sailors' Union of the Pacific, and president since 1955 of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Maritime Trades Department; of a heart attack; in Burlingame. Calif. Tattooed, Norwegian-born Harry Lundeberg never ducked a waterfront strike or a dock brawl, feuded for years with the West Coast longshoremen's left-wing Boss Harry Bridges (and once got a smashed jaw from a C.I.O.-swung baseball bat), had an old syndicalist's hatred of both Communists...
...recent meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Bangkok. "An atmosphere of isolation such as I have never experienced at any international conference surrounded the Israeli delegation," said Sharett. Not only the Arabs and neutralist Asians but U.S. and European delegates gave him the cold shoulder, said Sharett. One Norwegian told him: "I'm sympathetic to your problems, but we Norwegians don't want atom bombs dropping on us because of you. You brought us close...
...There Magnus Andersen, 41, a stocky, white-haired Norwegian, stood by with a 12-ft. steam-driven saw. "The winch pulls head right dead in front of my saw," as Andersen describes his work. "I say 'Woh!' when the part I want for first cut is opposite my blade. It is just behind the middle of head. I turn down saw, zuff-zuff, then I stop saw. nip in quick and grab the gland-messy purple and hard like rock-on edge of brain. I grab, twist and pull like hell...