Word: oslo
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...Ivar Asbjørn Følling 74, now retired, received $25,000. As head of biochemistry at Oslo's University Hospital, he was the first doctor to pay attention to a woman who reported that the urine of her two retarded children had a strangely pungent odor. Dr Følling took the trouble to find out why: the children's urine contained phenylpyruvic acid. As a result of his work, it is now known that because of a genetic defect, such children lack an enzyme essential to the metabolism of phenylalanine, a constituent of most protein...
Died. Kirsten Flagstad, 67, Norway's renowned Wagnerian opera soprano; after a long illness; in Oslo (see Music...
From her debut at Oslo's National Theater in 1913 to her farewell on the same stage 40 years to the day later, she was unquestionably the diva of the century. Her voice was at first sweet and small, but by 1935, when she made her debut at the Met as Sieglinde in Die Walküre, it had grown into immense power and clarity, perfectly even throughout its great range. She had grown with it, and when, as Isolde, she embraced Lauritz Melchior's Tristan, 400 pounds of lovebird sang from the stage. But together they were...
Norwegian Shipowners' Association Oslo...
From Atheists to Agnostics. Chief purpose of the Oslo congress was a discussion of long-range Humanist goals, and talk at the six-day session centered on the problem of how to develop a mature (meaning nonreligious) personality, and how Humanists could help preserve individual freedom in an overorganized world. The socially conscious delegates also thought about goals closer to hand, passed a resolution approving the antihunger work of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization as "a notable example of Humanist action." To abet the work of FAO, Humanists of the world were urged to work for better...