Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christmas in Scandinavia (Axel Stordahl and his Orchestra and Chorus; Decca LP). An engaging collection of carols from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The album comes without translations, but it manages to make considerably fresher comments on the season than most of the competition...
...Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that traditional North German trade ties to Britain and Scandinavia would be hurt...
...Catch Stars. To get his star, Hub Robinson had flown to Scandinavia, tempted Actress Bergman with a reported $100,000, plus ownership of the show in Europe. While in Europe, Robinson also talked Alec Guinness into making his U.S. TV bow (scheduled Nov. 10) by captivating him with a comic short story about a Machiavellian bank clerk. For forthcoming Ford specials, Robinson has also hooked Jack Benny, George Burns, Marian Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Jimmy Stewart, Ethel Merman. Coos one Robinson recruit, Roz Russell (whose coldness to TV he thawed by offering her a thumping $100,000 for the first Ford...
...week's end, the Philharmonic flew off to Leningrad for six concerts, will go to Kiev for four, return to Moscow for three more. Then come Germany, France, Yugoslavia, Italy, Scandinavia, and finally on Oct. 10, London. If the reception is anything like those to date, New York will have trouble keeping the Philharmonic and its maestro at home from...
...Khrushchev's next scheduled trip, to Scandinavia, things were obviously going to be worse. A campaign had already begun, supported by newspapers and prominent public figures, to give Khrushchev the silent treatment. Last week the Soviet Foreign Office called in the Moscow envoys of Sweden, Denmark and Norway to inform them coldly that Nikita had decided to cancel his Scandinavian tour. Originally, he had planned to talk up his proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would...