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...Norwegian committee in Oslo announced that the candidates for the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize included: United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie-India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson; Former University of Chicago Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins; the Moral Re-Armament movement's Frank N. Buchman...
...less than two years, an immigrant Norwegian family has climbed from TV obscurity to the top ten in national ratings. In its successful rise, Mama (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS) has never once raised its voice, stood on its head, or mugged to a studio audience, as do most of its competitors...
Died. Walter Geist, 56, president since 1942 of Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (farm tractors and harvesters, generators, road graders, sawmill and flour-mill machinery); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Son of Norwegian immigrants, Geist quit, school at 15 to go to work as an Allis-Chalmers errand boy. In 1949 he ran a $351 million business...
From Norway a Navy. That afternoon, landing at Oslo, Ike's plane circled snowbound Gardermoen airfield for 15 minutes, then slid in. Ike climbed into a Norwegian admiral's Cadillac for the 36-mile drive to the capital. He learned that Norway would need all her 22,000-man force, plus her reservists, to defend her long, exposed coastline and her boundary with Russia. Norway's 4,000-man brigade in Germany will be turned over to Ike's command, and the government plans to raise the draft period from nine to twelve months. During luncheon...
...award was made in recognition of Deknatel's preparation of the first book in English on the work of the 20th century Norwegian artist, Edvard Munch, and for his part in organizing the first exhibit in the United States of Munch's work. His paintings and graphic works were shown last spring at the Fogg Art Museum and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston...