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Kelley upped his hitting streak to 11 games, while Charlie Santos-Buch saw his skien snapped at nine...
...Vidkun Quisling's ashes. Long locked up by the Norwegian government in the fear that neo-Nazis might turn a burial site into a shrine, Quisling's ashes were finally released two years ago and laid to rest by his widow Maria in the family plot near Skien...
...explosion wrecked the Göring-operated Fosdalen Iron Mines. A 400-mile strip of central Norway, including Trondheim and Skien, the home of Henrik Ibsen, was promptly placed under martial law. The Nazis rushed 25,000 troops to the coast and other danger points. In a floodlit courtyard in Trondheim, six blackshirted SS men shot 25 hostages picked haphazardly from civic leaders. North of Trondheim the Nazis also turned on their own troops, executed one in every seven of 1,000 men who had mutinied...
Professor Halvdan Koht, visiting lecturer at Harvard from the University of Oslo, Norway, is the author of a two volume "Life of Ibsen" to be published by W. W. Norton and the American-Scandinavian Foundation late in March. Coming from Ibsen's birth-place, Skien, the author is intimately aware of the Ibsen traditions. And as editor of Ibsen's letters published during his life had exceptional opportunities for conferring with the dramatist...
...greatest Scandinavian man of letters was born, just a century ago, the son of a bankrupt merchant in the small Norwegian town of Skien. As a boy Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed to an apothecary and helped to grind powders, make pills and mix possets. Because he did not stick to that trade, but became a great poet and a greater dramatist, all Norway united, last week, to honor his birth-cen tenary with impressive ceremonies and revivals of his greatest plays at Oslo, Norwegian capital, and in Bergen, the sea port where he lived and labored for the theatre...
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