Word: olaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Olaf 14, Luther...
...plain people watched how their own national leaders were doing in the U.N. arena. It was typical of the state of the United Nations that Trygve Lie enjoyed clamorous popularity in Norway, where he was feted on his soth birthday last summer by everyone from Crown Prince Olaf to Communist Party leaders; but when a TIME correspondent asked a Warsaw hairdresser last week for her opinion of Trygve Lie, she merely asked: "What is that?" London's man-in-the-street (and many an intellectual) has never heard of Lie. In Paris, an unusually well-informed headwaiter exclaimed...
Mild-looking little Samuel Reshevsky hunched over the chess board, prodded his temples, thoughtfully munched a finger. His opponent, Olaf Ulvestad, paced the floor between moves like an expectant father. A few doors away, in an auditorium safely insulated from the ears of the players, fans watched the progress of the game on a huge chess board, happily kibitzed: "No, no, the bishop!" "Now, I would have played it this...
...Olaf Van Acht '49--Ruth M. Jordan...
Died. First Lieut. Augustus Van Cortlandt III, 22, only son of Manhattan socialite Augustus Van Cortlandt Jr., 51, who thus became the last surviving male of his famed old New York family (Dutch-born Olaf Van Cortlandt emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1638), which once owned 83,000 acres of New York City and Westchester County (including the Bronx' huge, sprawling Van Cortlandt Park which was sold to the city in 1889); of wounds received in battle in Germany...