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...feet on the ground if he were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
Nobody was more surprised than Kongsgaard himself. Although born in Kongsberg, Norway, birthplace of a long list of ski-jumping greats (including the Ruud brothers, Birger, Sigmund and Asbjörn), the 6-ft.-11 Norwegian does not take his skiing with professional seriousness. At 26, he is more anxious about getting good engineering marks at the University of Idaho, where he is an exchange student. Says Sverre, shrugging matter-of-factly: "Some things we must do; I have to study. Skiing is a diversion...
...about it afterward. In World War II, the Met kept right on with Wagner, but did not present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after V-J day. Since war's end, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad had been allowed to return to U.S. concert halls (despite protests and picket lines), but German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler (TIME, Jan 17) had been told by some of the most outstanding of concert soloists that he'd better not try. Gieseking...
...Norwegian sheriff and two Germans walked up to Odd Nansen's house and arrested him. Odd was the son of Fridtjof Nansen, the famed Arctic explorer,* a well-known architect and a friend of Norway's royal family (which was his crime...
March 24, 1945 (on a camp at Bergen-Belsen). "It was a common thing to get hold of a corpse to sleep on, so as to keep dry. Nor was cannibalism a rare phenomenon. One Norwegian saw a prisoner cut the liver out of a dead body...