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...young mother received bales of encouraging letters and the judges were roundly blasted. The sex education given in public schools would make even the most modern, broad-minded American parent blanch. At a party in Stockholm, I met Mrs. Elise Ottesen-Jensen, the 17th of 18 children of a Norwegian family, a vigorous, outspoken woman who looks years younger than she is (69). She travels all over Sweden by car, train and even on skis to run clinics, advises branch offices and lectures on birth control and sex relations. One of her proudest achievements has been the government decision...
...Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. New York Republican Steven Derounian offered a bill in the House to give "this doctor and humanitarian" a special Congressional Medal. Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas bestowed on Salk the country's highest honor, the Order., of the Quetzal. Norwegian schoolchildren collected money for a painting to give him, and three Hollywood movie companies said they wanted to film his life story. Back to the Lab. In their own way, politicos paid tribute to Dr. Salk by ringing statements concerning fair and even distribution of the vaccine. The New York Post echoed...
Swiss yodels richocheted through the snow-covered New England mountains. On the swarming ski slopes at Stowe, Vt., amid the babel of German, French, Norwegian and Italian, American voices were all but lost. The affair sounded like a dress rehearsal for next year's winter Olympics, and to the U.S. Olympic Ski Games Committee, the American-International Ski Races were just that...
...cranberry cook, like most of the help, is Norweigian, while the customers are almost all native Bostonians. Each guest was greeted by a hostess, who was also my adviser on what's good that's Norwegian. Among her suggestions was whale steak. I replied that pickled herring would suffice. As I gulped water she apologized for the herrings' appearance; "The goats' choose sauce is all gone." Relieved, I asked her if there were my more special Norwegian recipes. Her answer was a copy of Ola's Norwegian Cook Book describing cucumber sandwiches, with the bread dipped in sherry, the vaguely...
Finished with the book and too ashamed for another round of smorgasbord. I concluded the meal with three desserts, apple crunch cake, Norwegian rosettes, and rum pudding. After lapping up the last of the rum, I forgave my Scandinavian friends for serving French pastry and said goodbye to the waiter, the dishwasher, the cold chef, the hot chef, and the just plain chefs. I paid my check, $1.50, with one dessert, and told my hostess I'd be back on May 17 when the patio would be open. The seventeenth is of course, Norwegian Independence...