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Guri Lie, 27, daughter of the U.N.'s Trygve Lie, announced in Manhattan that she has registered as an immigrant under the Norwegian quota and will become a U.S. citizen...
...after another, the field of 100-odd jumpers came soaring off the takeoff. Some of the jumpers windmilled their arms awkwardly in trying to keep balance (and lost form points); others misjudged their take-off timing (and lost distance points). Some of the best of them came croppers: Norwegian-born Art Tokle took a bad fall on his second jump, wound up eleventh; Denver University's Billy Olson, co-holder of the hill record (297 ft.), also spilled out of the running. The crowd saved its biggest cheers for U.S. Olympian Art Devlin-and Riisnaes...
...include no dollars, but it will be the biggest mixture of European currencies ever passed in one package by the World Bank-some $10 million in French francs, $7,500,000 in Swiss francs, the rest in British pounds, Belgian francs, German marks, Austrian schillings, Italian lire, Dutch guilders, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor...
Competing without the team's star, Neil Dixon '55, the skiers were considered pregame underdogs by everyone including Coach Graham Taylor. The weekend's activity produced a new star, Norwegian exchange student Johan Andresen '53, who stole individual honors by capturing second place for over all performance...
Babe Didrikson was the sixth of seven children born to Ole Didrikson, a Norwegian ship's carpenter who sailed 19 times around the Horn before settling down in Port Arthur, Texas. A scrawny youngster, she rebelled against femininity; women were "sissies who wore girdles, bras and that junk." Instead of wasting time with dolls, Mildred Ella Didrikson exercised on a backyard weight-lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into...