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Sonja Henie's success in the U.S. failed to cut any ice with the Norwegian press; a writer for Oslo's Verdens Gang tartly summed up her aid to her native land during the German occupation: "On the whole, she didn't do anything...
American Overseas Airlines, Inc. added Oslo to the scheduled stops on its weekly flight to Scandinavia. One-way fare from New York: $470 plus...
Married. Carl Joachim Hambro, 60, well-to-do, Conservative president of Norway's Odelsting (Lower House of Parliament), onetime president of the League Assembly, now a UNO delegate; and Gyda Christensen, 73, Norse actress; he for the second time, she for the third; in Oslo...
Trygve Lie was the son of a plain carpenter of Grünerlökken, an Oslo workers' suburb. He became a union lawyer, for over 20 years held his own in the rough & tumble of Norway's Labor politics. When the Germans invaded Norway, Lie, as Minister of Supply and Shipping, ordered the merchant marine into Allied ports, then fled with the Norwegian Government on a British battleship. Later his buxom wife Hjördis and his three daughters joined him in London, where he embarked on a new career-diplomacy...
...other honors, Elder Statesman Cordell Hull could now add the Nobel Peace Prize for 1945.* Explained the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, which announced its first peace award since 1938, in Oslo this week: Hull, the eighth American to be so tapped, had done most to lay the foundations for the San Francisco Conference...