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Died. Ole Edvart Rolvaag, 55, retired head of the department of Norwegian Language & Literature at St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minn.), author of Giants in the Earth, Peder Victorious, Their Fathers' God, best-selling novels of pioneer Norwegian life in the WTest, written in Norwegian and translated into English; of heart disease; in Northfield...
...program is as follows: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel Brahma Pieces enfantines Casella Poeme Serlabin La Danse d'Olaf Pick Mangiagalli Sonata in B minor Chopin
Honored. Knute Kenneth Rockne, Notre Dame University's famed Norwegian-born football coach killed last fortnight in an airplane crash (TIME, April 6); by King Haakon VII of Norway, who sent Olaf Bernts, Norwegian consul in Chicago as his personal representative at the Rockne funeral in South Bend, Ind., and who made known that he would confer posthumous Norwegian knighthood upon Mr. Rockne within six months...
...said to have reached a circulation of 425,000. It now claims about 150,000. Editorially, Whiz Bang was built around the rousing escapades and shady epigrams of the characters of "Whiz Bang Farm" (supposedly at Robbinsdale, suburb of Minneapolis): Gus, the hired man, Olaf, Deacon Callahan, his daughter Lizzie (whose virtue was always being designed upon) and Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull. (Rejection slips to authors explained that "Pedro, the Whiz Bang bull, didn't like this one.") It was and is a collection of frankly bawdy lines and pictures, or innocent double-entendres dependent upon reader-knowledge...
Associated with Dr. Bigelow in connection with the U. S. Ice Patrol is Olaf Mosby, formerly of the Geophysical Institute at Bergen, Norway...