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...annual carnival, in which Harvard skiers have only recently become recognized as definite contenders for the eastern intercollegiate crown, assumes a real international importance this weekend with teams representing Chile, McGill, and possibly a group of Norwegian Royal Air Force men on special leave from their Canadian squadrons...
...tagged and addressed to Mr. Axel Andersen in the U. S. A Lufthansa plane landed him in Lisbon. The Clipper was so full of diplomats that even Axel couldn't be squeezed in, so he was put aboard the American Export liner Siboney. Miss Helen Cederlind, a pretty Norwegian, who was going to the U. S. to marry a U. S. Army engineer, promised to keep an eye on him. Everybody kept an eye on him. A Frenchman played a game with Axel: he could make one of Axel's toys disappear, and tell Axel, "Whistle...
...garbled accounts had begun to make sense. They traced the voracious course of an armed Nazi merchantman with its prison and supply ships, the Manyo Maru and the Tokyo Maru, which had been shooting up Pacific shipping lanes for weeks, bagging at least ten New Zealand, British, French and Norwegian vessels...
...Otto Schniebs at Hanover and unquestionably last year's most valuable skier. Not only does he tear down mountain trails and through tricky slaloms, but he's hard to best in the jumping and cross country events. Another lad expected to crash through this season is Finn Ferner, Norwegian dare-devil who had a bit of bad luck last year when he found New England trails a little more tortuous than the Scandinavian slopes, spending most of his racing time in the woods. As far as style goes, Ferner is probably the most accomplished of Halsey's experts...
Long before Christmas, four neat little potted cedars were placed on either side of the White House front door. The "public" Christmas tree, a ten-foot Norwegian spruce glistening with artificial snow and icicles, was set up in the East Room before the broad French windows. On wintery Washington evenings the old house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows...