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Born in Manhattan of Norwegian parents, big, chubby-cheeked Erling Iversen is a graduate of New York University, lives in Brooklyn, studied this past year at Princeton's Graduate School. His fellowship requires that he spend some six months each year in Rome, but the rest of the time, far from reeling and moaning through the streets. Architect Iversen intends to travel-"if they keep the peace," he said gloomily, "which I doubt...
BELOW THE ROARING FORTIES-F. D. Ommanney-Longmans, Green ($3). Antarctic adventures (1929-1937) of a London zoologist, with smelly descriptions of whaling, acute descriptions of penguins and seals, warm descriptions of the Discovery's, Norwegian crew members, an exciting account of narrow escape from polar ice and marooning...
Heading the group of stage luminaries previously announced is Vera Zorina, Norwegian star of the Rodgers and Hart musical "I Married an Angel" current at the Shubert. Other headliners from the same show are Chuck Walters, Audrey Christie, and Vivienne Segal. Walters and Christie will sing their number "Roxy Music Hall" from the play...
...hour's train ride from Trondheim, in central Norway, is Hell, a tiny hamlet (pop. 1,465) which thrives on U. S. excursionists who have fun sending home Hell-marked postcards.† Situated on hilly ground, Hell (the Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions...
Until the next war the Ley and sister ships will cruise regularly to the Mediterranean and Norwegian Fjords, carry "deserving workers," approved by their employers and the Labor Front. The fare to approved passengers will be as little as $30 per trip. Closing the launching ceremonies, Orator Hitler, looking meaningly at a big delegation of voters from Germany's newest province, Austria, cried: "What formerly was available only to a small privileged class we shall make available...