Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Sonja Henie, 57, Norwegian-born queen of the ice revues in the 1930s and '40s; of leukemia; in an ambulance plane between Paris and Oslo. The chubby, bedimpled daughter of a prosperous Oslo fur wholesaler, Sonja captured Norway's figure skating championship by the time she was ten. In 1927 she won the first of her ten consecutive world titles and the following year earned the first of three successive Olympic crowns. As astute in business as she was graceful on skates, she turned professional in 1936, made eleven movies (One in a Million, Thin...
...Juscelino Kubitschek, ex-President of Brazil; Stavros Niarchos, ex-husband of Charlotte Ford Niarchos. For titles, there were the Maharanee of Baroda, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Princess Ira von Furstenberg and Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes. Salvador Dali materialized, so to speak. So did Hollywood Director Vincente Minnelli, Sonja Henie, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Audrey Hepburn, Françoise Sagan and Penelope Tree...
Married. Crown Prince Harald, 31, only son of King Olav V of Norway and a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; and Sonja Haraldsen, 31, daughter of a prosperous Oslo clothing manufacturer; in Oslo, in a Lutheran ceremony graced by the reigning monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Belgium and the Presidents of Iceland and Finland...
...showed his bride, a lover of 19th century art, around his Manhattan apartment back in 1956, she took one horrified look at the wealth of modern art hanging on the walls and gasped: "It's a nice place, but get rid of those terrible paintings!" Twelve years later, Sonja Henie, 55, is finally getting that wish. She and her husband Niels Onstad are giving Oslo an $8 million gallery to be stocked with more than 200 paintings from their world-famed collection of moderns. But the parting, it turns out, is sweet sorrow for Sonja, who has become...
...royal palace in Oslo had been without a woman-ever since King Olav V's youngest daughter, Astrid, married a commoner. But now the King and Crown Prince Harold, 31, will no longer live in lonely masculine splendor. The King has consented to Harald's marriage to Sonja Har-aldsen, 30, the striking blonde daughter of an Oslo clothing-store manager whom Harald courted for ten years. Royalists were soon aflutter over the fact that Sonja, a commoner, will receive queenly rights when Harald ascends the throne. That issue hardly concerned the Prince. "For me," said he, "Sonja...