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After ten months fighting with the Finish army and the French Foreign Legion and serving the Czech, Norwegian, and French civil governments, this year may well seem a bit tame for John Crane-Baker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORE RETURNS FROM YEAR IN FINLAND, FRANCE | 9/25/1940 | See Source »

Undset was formerly a student at the University of Oslo, but at the time of the German invasion he drove an ambulance in the Norwegian army for a short while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDSET, NOBEL PRIZEWINNER'S SON, MAY ENROLL AT HARVARD | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Exit Rieber | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...when the Allies were still struggling in Norway, he sat in his favorite Manhattan haunt-the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park-debating ways & means of converting pro-Ally sentiment into increased Allied aid. On May 6-when Chamberlain was on his way out over the Norwegian failure-White drafted a brief statement, left it with Eichelberger, returned to Emporia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Story of a Tide | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Married. Else Marie Hall, 20, daughter of famed Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad; and Accountant Arthur Dusenbury, son of a wealthy ranch owner; in Bozeman, Mont. Else had once thought of becoming a singer, changed her mind because "I am afraid I could never sing as well as Mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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