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Laid up with a virus infection at his winter home in Pinehurst. N.C.. General of the Armies George Catlett Marshall, 72, got some news better than any medicine. After 52 years of Nobel awards, five Norwegian politicians picked Old Soldier Marshall as the first professional military man ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The 1953 award (a tax-free $33.954) went to him for a civilian achievement: his prime-mover's role as author of the Marshall Plan, which has helped Western Europe's ravaged economies through postwar convalescence. At week's end Marshall flew...
...Indians present a strong team with more depth than any that the Crimson has faced to date. Headed by senior Walt Clarkson, it is heavily supported by two Norwegian runners, Pete Jebsen and Magne Johnson...
Ancestry: His grandfather, Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, came to the U.S. in 1865 and changed his name to Harry Warren. Halvar's Norwegian-born son, Methias, and Swedish-born Chrystal Hernlund, who met and married in California in the 1880s, were Earl Warren's parents. Methias became master car repairman for a division of the Southern Pacific Railroad, turned into a mortgage-foreclosing recluse in his later years, was bludgeoned to death in his lonely Bakersfield, Calif, home in 1938. The motive was believed to be robbery; the crime has never been solved...
...Manhattan, a picked crew of eight husky Norwegian sailors won gold belt buckles in the annual International Lifeboat Race by outrowing a favored U.S. crew along a 1½-mile Hudson River course. Time...
...Savage World. Thorstein Veblen also cast a jaundiced eye on the bourgeoisie. A nonconformist who might have been one of Sinclair Lewis' village atheists, he was born on the American frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety pin and he'd up his socks with two pins moored to his pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious...