Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, she had Oistrakh on the line. Philadelphia-born Correspondent Shenker tried the violinist in four languages, including his dimly remembered college (University of Pennsylvania '47) Russian. But he got nowhere until, on a hunch, he switched to Yiddish. That did it. Since then, Shenker has toured the Scandinavian countries with Oistrakh, and met him again in New York to report this week's story (see Music). FOR his first TIME cover, Vienna Born Artist Henry Koerner whose life and works are well known to TIME-readers, went to a Boston theater and painted Julie Harris...
...TRANSPORT RACE is spreading fast among foreign airlines. Holland's K.L.M., first foreign line to sign up, has ordered eight Douglas DC-8s, worth $50 million (total Douglas orders so far: 61 planes v. 50 Boeing 707s), for delivery starting in March 1960. Scandinavian Airlines will soon order from six to ten jets, while Air France, Japan Air Lines and Swissair are all negotiating with Douglas or Boeing...
Because it is basically a psychological study, August Stindbergh's play Miss Julie would seem to be uniquely suited to the talents of the Scandinavian film-makers. Yet the adaptation written and directed by Alf Sjoberg and filmed in 1952 is still rather disappointing. The weaknesses of the picture, however, lie in the original play...
When their song was over, the three stars reluctantly moved out of conjunction. Fournier will fly to Switzerland, then on to a Scandinavian tour; Solomon heads for performances in South Africa, Israel and the Continent, Francescatti for a four-month rest in the Berkshires. Could they ever get together again? Possibly their schedules will permit...
Pyramid on the Prairie. Sturdy and industrious, mostly of Scandinavian and German stock, North Dakotans are working during this time of no immediate crisis on a promising plan to prevent future dust bowls. Last week beneath the prairie sun, tractors and dump trucks, concrete mixers and elevation loaders, electric and power shovels and bulldozers bumped and clunked on the project that is the heart of North Dakota's new hope-the second biggest rolled-fill earth dam in the world, across the unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army...