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...Baritone Herbert Janssen sang together in Wagner's Tannhäuser in Cleveland. Their audience felt a tenseness on the stage. They did not know that Soprano Flagstad had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get in touch by telephone and cable with her husband, daughter, mother and sister in Oslo. The curtain went down on the final swellings of the Pilgrims' Chorus. Flagstad & Co. bowed at something bigger than most opera singers ever see: an auditorium two city blocks long, full of nearly 10,000 wildly applauding people...
Last week found Leland Stowe in Oslo...
...escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...
Journalist Seidenfaden used his head. He landed in Oslo, headed for the nearest wireless office, and put his news on the air. A few hours later he escaped to Stockholm. His dispatch was the first definite information that the German fleet was moving on Norway. Luck, enterprise and brains, the three ingredients of newspaper beats, last week had given Erik Seidenfaden the first beat of the new war in the north. Mysterious Invasion...
...first unconfirmed news reached the U. S. from Associated Press in Oslo that "foreign warships" were attacking Norway. Copenhagen was silent; so was Amsterdam, transmission centre for foreign news ever since World War II began...