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...KRUSE Oslo, Norway...
Curiously, Thagaard is no Socialist but a Liberal, a brilliant economist and lawyer, and chairman of the board of Oslo's leading Liberal daily, Dagbladet. Appointed price director in 1920, he has been virtually impregnable in his job ever since. The milestones of his career are the bleached bones of Norwegian free enterprise, starting with antimonopoly laws in the '30s, through price-control laws in 1940: the more severe postwar emergency controls in 1947 (popularly called "Lex Thagaard"), and ending in this week's law. Today Norwegians call him "Rex Thagaard...
...rugged as Norway's coastline, he is a dedicated public servant. He spends long working days in a decrepit old rocking chair at a big, flattop desk, carries away stacks of homework every night. He earns less than $5,000 yearly, lives in a small, unpretentious flat in Oslo, rides buses and streetcars, and does not own an automobile. His only relaxation is attending opening nights with his wife, a theater critic, whom he married...
...rtha; and Erling Svenn Lorentzen, 30, a commoner, well-to-do shipping executive and a hero of the Norwegian underground during World War II; in a simple ceremony attended by European royalty (including Britain's Princess Margaret) and Lorentzen's wartime comrades; in Asker Church near Oslo...
...time. I had to burn my valuable letters; what ashes they made!" After hiding in Prague for three weeks Jakobson and his wife escaped to Denmark with the help of some friends. During the next year he and his wife shuttled all around the Scandinavian countries, finally settling in Oslo...