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...with a capital Q -was reported to be a casualty. A Moscow report said that Vidkun Quisling had been wounded by an assassin. A London story held that the Norse renegade was so ill that his duties had been passed on to his Minister of Internal Affairs. From Oslo came an authenticated story which summed up all Norway : Sverre Riisnaes, Vidkun Quisling's Minister of Justice, who is known to Free Norwegians as "Quisling's Donald Duck," informed an un-Nazified Oslo attorney that his license to practice law had been "revoked for life." The answer...
...workers who need extra energy should be served "Oslo meals" in mid-morning and afternoon. Originally given to Norwegian school children, Oslo meals (now used in British factories) consist of wholemeal bread, cheese, half an orange, half an apple, a raw carrot, a little less than a pint of milk...
...sing, in Vienna's run-down opera. The rumor is probably not true, unless Flagstad wished to make some gesture of sympathy toward the unhappy Viennese. The more powerful Berlin opera, which would be flattered to get Flagstad, is not popular among Norwegians. When it played in Oslo, the opera was sold out, but the house was empty. Norwegians had bought all the tickets, torn them...
Kept uninformed by Vichy censorship, the businessmen of French West Africa, Morocco and Algiers had little basis for comparison of their boom with recent booms in Oslo, Sofia, Bucharest, where tourism turned to swarms of Nazi soldiers...
Soprano Flagstad was partly responsible. Years ago, when she sang an audition in Oslo, a baby cried in the next room. It was Astrid Varnay. Flagstad made friends with the elder Varnays, a coloratura soprano and a stage director at the Stockholm Royal Opera. Soon the Varnays moved to the U.S. When Flagstad followed, she learned that Astrid had a voice and sent her to her own teacher, Hermann Weigert...