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...from the misty fjord of Bergen, Norway, one morning last week climbed a trimotored Junkers seaplane. For some 275 miles it buzzed north along the ragged Scandinavian coast to Nidaros (Trondhjem), then on for 300 miles across the Arctic Circle to Bodo, finally another 425 miles past Narvik and Tromso to the famed town of Hammerfest, northernmost port in the world, where it sliced into the harbor at 5:15. Thus, in the first trip of a daily service that will last until autumn, did Norwegian Aero Transport Co. inaugurate the world's most northerly airline. Cost of ticket...
Peter Neagoe writes about his fellow-Rumanians in English. Though his lan guage has a few traces of foreign accent it reads like a good translation. His stories, almost invariably peopled by simple characters, are simple, tonic, vivid. Earthy but not Scandinavian, he indulges in no metaphysical brooding. His sensibility is stoutly laced in by sense. Though he is a respecter of tragic facts he likes also the unbuttoned bellylaugh...
Died. Rasmus Björn Anderson, 90 onetime (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Denmark, author of 60 books on Scandinavian history, first to claim that Leif Ericson discovered America; in Madison...
...late Lewis Baker Warren left a bequest of $1,000,000 to Yale University to be used for scholarships to students "who shall be the sons of white Christian parents and Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom were citizens of the United States and were born in America...
...each award to serve not only as a memorial to my son but to the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes its culture. ... I direct that such beneficiaries shall be confined to those boys who shall be ... the sons of white Christian parents of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian or Teutonic descent, both of whom are citizens of the United States and were born in America...