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...said that she was not overexcited about her return: "No, I have stopped being sentimental." It was a trouper's speech, and Flagstad is a trouper. She has been singing opera now for 37 years, and the theater is in her blood and background. Her father worked in Oslo's Central Theater as a violinist and conductor, her mother as a vocal coach. The first score that flaxen-haired Kirsten ever "yelled out" as a child was Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. She learned Lohengrin before...
Operatic Home. Manhattan Banker (and Met Angel) Otto Kahn discovered her in 1929. After hearing her sing Tosca in Oslo, he told Met Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza that she was a singer to watch. Before Gatti got around to taking this advice, Flagstad accepted a bid from Bayreuth. It was the first time she had sung outside of Scandinavia. Says she: "I was quite happy where I was. I was never ambitious. Always I wanted to be a private person...
From Norway a Navy. That afternoon, landing at Oslo, Ike's plane circled snowbound Gardermoen airfield for 15 minutes, then slid in. Ike climbed into a Norwegian admiral's Cadillac for the 36-mile drive to the capital. He learned that Norway would need all her 22,000-man force, plus her reservists, to defend her long, exposed coastline and her boundary with Russia. Norway's 4,000-man brigade in Germany will be turned over to Ike's command, and the government plans to raise the draft period from nine to twelve months. During luncheon...
...December Ralph Johnson Bunche will go to Oslo, Norway's capital, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, which, according to the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite, must be awarded "without distinction of nationality." In Oslo Bunche will get a gold medal and a cash award of about $31,700. He has not decided what he will do with the money. "I'm a very conservative person by nature," he said last week, "and I never spend anything before I get it." To celebrate the news, added the usually abstemious Bunche, he had bought a champagne...
...since 1946 had Russian track & field stars appeared in international competition west of the Iron Curtain. After the Oslo games that year, where they won six events, the Russians withdrew from the 1948 Olympics. Last week, with an eye on the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, the Russians sent a planeload of 40 athletes to Brussels for the 23-nation European track & field championships. In action, they looked pretty good...