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...ballyhoo the new process, Producer Louis de Rochemont (who produced Cinerama Holiday) hashed out a travelogue-type adventure of the Norwegian square-rigged windjammer Christian Radich and followed its bouncing cruise, wave to wave, from Oslo to the Caribbean to New York. More than two hours long-winded, the Windjammer splashes into numerous ports of call, catches some fine scenes of native dances and fireworks parties. Other good shots: Cellist Pablo Casals playing a Catalan ballad in a Puerto Rican garden; a panoramic tour of Norwegian fjords; a vibrant Caribbean sunset, gold and red against a serene black...
...National Amateur hockey team beat the varsity handily, 9 to 3, on Dec. 30 at Des Moines. The Amateurs, who will go to the world championships this year in Oslo, played even with the Crimson for the first period and then erupted for a string of goals in the second period to win the game...
...Carl of Denmark ascended the throne of Norway as Haakon VII (after a 14th century Norwegian King). A tactful, well-loved, conscientious and friendly monarch, he was not too proud to be seen by his subjects riding the trolley cars or pedaling the streets of Oslo as one of them...
...Hills. In 1940, with the German might pouring over his beaches, King Haakon refused to appoint the traitor Quisling to the Norwegian premiership. He fled Oslo to the forbidding North, and, relentlessly pursued by the Nazis, twice narrowly escaped death. His forces held out for longer than those in any other Nazi-invaded country, and during the 62 days of resistance more Nazi soldiers were killed than there were men in the entire Norwegian army. Aboard a British cruiser, Haakon escaped at last to England, where his voice, broadcast by the BBC, carried on a clarion call for resistance...
Died. Christian Frederik Carl George Valdemar Axel, King Haakon VII, 85, Norway's only ruler since the country became independent in 1905, and the world's oldest reigning monarch; of a respiratory ailment; in Oslo (see FOREIGN NEWS...