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When night came, the tall, blue-eyed Norseman put on spectacles and a false black beard. Quietly he slipped past the guards of his isolated cottage "prison" and made his way to Oslo, twelve miles away. There, night after night, within a stone's throw of Gestapo headquarters, he presided at secret meetings of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church...
Josef Terboven. Nazi commissioner for Norway, was said to have blown himself to bits with dynamite in an underground fortress he had ordered built at Skaugum. Crown Prince Olav's commandeered castle near Oslo...
Vidkun Quisling was held in Oslo prison, reported to be suffering from megalomania...
...London, King Christian's brother, Haakon VII of Norway, was likewise preparing to return to his throne in Oslo. Crown Prince Olav and three members of the Norwegian Government in Exile had already returned to Oslo last week on a British cruiser. As he drove through the capital in an open car, thousands of jubilant Norwegians shouted "Hiya, Olav." In London the rest of the royal family had assembled. While they waited, exiled Norwegians spent their time (and remaining ration coupons) on a last big buying binge...
...past two years, the best U.S. jumpers have accented form over distance. So do Barber and Devlin, who have their postwar sights trained on Holmenkollen (just outside Oslo, Norway), where judges see ski jumping first as an art, then as a distance-devouring flight...