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Young Danielsen nevertheless managed to get a job with the Geographical Survey, making charts of Norway's coastline. With his wife Anne, a known member of the Oslo Communist Party, he became a leader of Norway's small pro-Russian crowd. The police began to take an interest in young Danielsen's movements. They shadowed him from one furtive rendezvous to another, decided he was passing information to Soviet agents. On April 17, they pounced on him as he was talking to a Soviet Embassy underling in a suburban railway station. The arrest was bungled: Danielsen...
Last week, ex-Naval Hero Danielsen was in Oslo's "No. 19" prison, awaiting trial. His father, an able, widely respected officer, was deeply distressed by his son's rowdy behavior and pro-Communist activities, has not spoken to him since war's end. Recently he saw him for the first time in five years, when he visited Per in prison, urged him to make a full confession. Per refused. These days, Danielsen sticks close to his desk at naval headquarters, planning Norway's defense against possible attacks from the East. He never mentions...
Died. Vilhelm Bjerknes, 89, Norway's "father of modern meteorology," whose weather "fronts" greatly increased the accuracy of weather forecasts; in Oslo, Norway. Bjerknes' pioneering shifted emphasis from ground observations to the upper air, explained weather change by the interaction of polar and tropical "air masses." His system was gradually adopted by the U.S. Weather Bureau in the early...
...after the takeoff, soaring through the air at 50 m.p.h., Ski-Jumper Arne Hoel could hear nothing but the wind in his ears. Then he caught the roar of the crowd: 100,000 Norwegian heias (hurrahs) swelling up from the packed slopes of Holmenkollen jump, on the edge of Oslo Fjord. A Norwegian ski crowd can tell a fine leap long before the landing...
...Norwegian committee in Oslo announced that the candidates for the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize included: United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie-India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson; Former University of Chicago Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins; the Moral Re-Armament movement's Frank N. Buchman...