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...French, British, Dutch and Norwegian governments sent protests to the U.S. The Liberte withdrew from the "gentleman's agreement." Said Britain's Manchester Guardian: "... a scandalous piece of illiberalism ..." Calmer observers pointed out that there was nothing illiberal about trying to keep Communists out of the U.S., but that this particular part of the McCarran Act was hardly the most efficient...
Coach Graham Taylor's squad is looking forward anxiously to the "great things" expected from Norwegian exchange students Johan Andresen, who under the College's athletic rules was not permitted to ski last year. He's expected to ski in all four events...
Family & Early Years: His father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother came to the U.S. from Germany when she was six years old. Harold, one of five children, was born April 13, 1907, at West St. Paul, Minn., where his father ran a 40-acre truck farm. He grew up on the farm, worked as a grocery clerk, bakery pan greaser and Pullman conductor to pay his way through the University of Minnesota, graduated from the law school with above-average marks in 1929 at the age of 22. The same year...
Meat for the Mink. For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
...exact opposite of the tense, fiery Cain, Jackson is a diligent yet amiable campaigner, making the customary endless rounds to women's clubs, teas, rodcos, grange meetings, and labor groups. He eats many Norwegian pancakes every Sunday morning, which pleases Washington's sizable Scandanavian population. He has voted in favor of most of the Administration's foreign policy, has been on the liberal side on most domestic legislation...