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...most ambitious sculptural scheme of modern times was rising last week in Oslo's Frogner Park. It was the life work of Norway's leading sculptor (and eccentric), Gustav Vigeland, who died in 1943, aged 74. Not since Michelangelo, claimed one critic, had a sculptor chiseled such a forest of figures-over 100 separate versions of the human form, in granite and bronze, standing, reclining, cavorting, caressing, all over some 190 grassy acres. Vigeland simply ignored the Nazi invaders, and they let him go on with his sculpture. The work took 40 years to complete, cost Norwegian taxpayers...
Thus fixed, Vigeland married himself to his job, forever forsook all ordinary social life. Even wives (he divorced two) were out. Oslo's citizens caught only brief glimpses of him-when he took walks armed with a heavy stick, to protect himself from dogs, which he hated. One result of his personal seclusion: Vigeland is far less known internationally than his fellow Scandinavian sculptor, Sweden's Carl Milles...
...take over files, functions. and probably some employes. A budget for the new organization must be worked out. And the ticklish question of a permanent seat must be settled. Geneva and The Hague appeared to be out of the running-too many ghosts there. Among the other possibilities: Prague, Oslo, Vancouver, San Francisco. Philadelphia...
...Europe's kings to be pushed out of his country by the Nazis was the first to come back. In London Norway's Haakon VII waited for a symbolic date before following Premier Johan Nygaardsvold and the members of the Norwegian Government in Exile who returned to Oslo last week. The homing officials were somewhat uncertain about the changes in Norway's political climate during their absence. But seldom has a returning Government in Exile been so warmly welcomed. Hundreds of fjordside villagers went out in small boats to meet the liner which brought Nygaardsvold home. When...
...Norway. (He corresponded regularly with Bishop Gustaf Aulen in Sweden, signing his letters "Dr. Kattman" and discussing religious subjects in medical language.) Exactly three years from the day he was interned, Bishop Berggrav escaped with the aid of his chief guard (TIME, May 7). He boarded a train for Oslo, got off a few stations before the city, was met by Swedish Consul Leif Öhrvall. The consul drove Berggrav (this time hiding behind a false mustache) directly through Oslo to a hiding place. Next day the church underground sent him a detailed report of the profane rage which Jonas...