Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell broke loose in Norway one day about a year ago when venerable Professor Ole Hallesby, speaking over the state broadcasting system, startled Scandinavian sinners with the warning: "If you are not a believer, be careful! If you were to collapse and die suddenly, you would crash straight into Hell...
...over Europe and Asia showed two common themes: food and ruins. Last week an art contest, sponsored by a French magazine and UNESCO, bringing forth children's work from 34 countries, showed that the specters of hunger and war have somewhat receded. Regional moods could be detected. Scandinavian pictures were dark and brooding, Italian entries sunny and gay. One youngster from the Cameroons painted a fearsome witchdoctor, a Hungarian contestant did a festival scene with a hammer & sickle. Worldwide winner: Tulip Fields, an imaginative, untroubled pastoral by The Netherlands' Hans Evendik, 13. On the whole, the junior painters...
Democrat Johnson, 52, a stolid district attorney from Black River Falls (Hull's home town), was a Scandinavian-American running in a Scandinavian district, had more personal standing than his opponent. No orator but an accomplished handshaker, he brought in an array of outsiders to speak for him: Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who was Johnson's candidate for President last year, and two former Secretaries of Agriculture, Charles Brannan and Claude Wickard. He also had a recorded endorsement from Adlai Stevenson. Johnson pitched it as a straight anti-Republican campaign: "Stop the Republican Recession...
Wiren: Serenade for Strings, Op. I I (Stockholm Radio Orchestra, conducted by Stig Westerberg; London). An appealing piece dating from 1937 by one of Sweden's standout composers. Like a good many other Scandinavian efforts. Dag Wiren's work avoids blatant modernity, but gets a fresh, airy effect by blending forthright melodic warmth with spicy dashes of dissonance...
...however, for there was no time. I had to burn my valuable letters; what ashes they made!" After hiding in Prague for three weeks Jakobson and his wife escaped to Denmark with the help of some friends. During the next year he and his wife shuttled all around the Scandinavian countries, finally settling in Oslo...