Word: olav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a pencil drawing of the late Count Bernadotte, laughing, and an oil painting (by the U.S.'s George Francis) of Surjit Singh, an Indian, who works in the Security Council Library and is famed for his pale pastel turbans. One picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like...
Crown Prince Olav...
Norway's Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha flew into the U.S. for a visit and a little exploratory tinkering, at a Boston hospital, with the Crown Princess' troublesome back...
Josef Terboven. Nazi commissioner for Norway, was said to have blown himself to bits with dynamite in an underground fortress he had ordered built at Skaugum. Crown Prince Olav's commandeered castle near Oslo...
...London, King Christian's brother, Haakon VII of Norway, was likewise preparing to return to his throne in Oslo. Crown Prince Olav and three members of the Norwegian Government in Exile had already returned to Oslo last week on a British cruiser. As he drove through the capital in an open car, thousands of jubilant Norwegians shouted "Hiya, Olav." In London the rest of the royal family had assembled. While they waited, exiled Norwegians spent their time (and remaining ration coupons) on a last big buying binge...